I started getting technical when I realized that life was more fun when I can outsource the boring parts to a computer. This isn't especially rare, either: Exc

I started getting technical when I realized that life was more fun when I can outsource the boring parts to a computer. This isn't especially rare, either: Excel/VBA wasn't designed to be a financial modeling language, but it's one of the standards in quantitative finance because so many traders kept track of information in Excel, and ended up getting really good at it. As languages proliferate and integration between web apps gets more common, I think moving along the user-developer continuum will get easier.