Programmer (among other things) here, and I have seen exactly this attitude among a not-so-small minority of those around me. Sometimes I get the feeling (when

Programmer (among other things) here, and I have seen exactly this attitude among a not-so-small minority of those around me. Sometimes I get the feeling (when often confronted with the whole 'everyone should earn to code' idea) that there is some articulated and unconscious ideological drive that dictates that we have finally invented a language can completely control all alternative, that is, that we're looking for a real version of the ancient memetic constructs from Stephenson's Snow Crash and that somehow the logic and linear bias of computer code makes it impossible for some so-called postmodern programmer to emerge, or something. [I also think about this when I hear computer majors complain that programming language classes should be count in place of foreign language ones.]