> A non-technical person CAN indeed make software... he just can't make maintainable software, and eventually his incompetence backfires. Sure, and then they j

> A non-technical person CAN indeed make software... he just can't make maintainable software, and eventually his incompetence backfires. Sure, and then they just pass it off to a competent technical person. It sure would be convenient if these people used the same language! Right now, when a non-programmer starts a project in Excel, and then hands it to a programmer to make into a good, maintainable version (perhaps as a native application, or a web application), the programmer has to start from scratch. That's an awkward discontinuity. There's no reason I see it always has to be that way. We just haven't prioritized the ability for a non-technical person to make something, and also for a technical person to be able to pick it up and turn it into a full system.