The amount of half-baked Javascript bookmarklets, Excel scripts, and SQL stored procedures I have come across in my lifetime beg to differ. People are already

The amount of half-baked Javascript bookmarklets, Excel scripts, and SQL stored procedures I have come across in my lifetime beg to differ. People are already programming, and they'd do more of it if everyone had basic knowledge of how. It's like literacy. Before general literacy, people thought it was pointless to learn to write, now everyone jots down grocery lists and working notes because they're capable of doing it without a second thought.