I think the assumption here is that programming is about making applications, which it's not. Python provides a fantastic way for moderately technical users to

I think the assumption here is that programming is about making applications, which it's not. Python provides a fantastic way for moderately technical users to interact with the web, their computers, and their data. I built something this week that takes a source document, extracts entities from the text, uses that to build a query, ranks the results and returns a load of relevant documents. It's massively useful to me and my organisation, complex enough to require coding, but absolutely sufficient as a quick command line script. I'm not a CS grad or a serious developer, I only got into coding in the last few years, but I can make all this awesome stuff without worrying about compilers, garbage collection, pointers and whatnot. Python rocks.