You miss the point, so let me rephrase it for you. [snip] Okay, well if that is indeed all that is being suggested - fine and I couldn't agree more - but it is

You miss the point, so let me rephrase it for you. [snip] Okay, well if that is indeed all that is being suggested - fine and I couldn't agree more - but it is so often the case that people want more than the simple system allows them, very quickly in fact. Seriously, look at any work MS access sheet for evidence - without fail things get very complicated very quick and in the end a developer has to sort it out. Wrong. Anybody is able to think like a programmer. [snip] We are just going to have to agree to disagree on that. I totally agree that it is largely about work, lots and lots of hard work (I'm a developer myself, so don't I know it); but there is a certain kind of structural way of thinking about things which I just don't think most people possess, in the same way that most people don't possess the type of mind which just 'gets' music. Talent is totally overrated, but it it is a pre-requisite to being able to do difficult things. And yes, I do think that is literally being born with a certain type of brain, or at perhaps also early life too to some degree...