>>At least optional typing and macros are not considered to be universal benefits for programming. They are, if they use them enough. Some body mentioned in t

>>At least optional typing and macros are not considered to be universal benefits for programming. They are, if they use them enough. Some body mentioned in this post that number of programmers from the 1980s has gone up from probably a million to 20 million or so. What happened is that we had to lower the bar to entry, such that we now have many novices and a few experts. Most people want to just come in coast 9 - 5 and go home, so you have very few people who want to push the limits of their tools.