>What follows is not a slight on these people, who were all motivated, intelligent, and capable. It is a slight on the world of programming in the current ages,

>What follows is not a slight on these people, who were all motivated, intelligent, and capable. It is a slight on the world of programming in the current ages, if you are seeking to get started with putting a general-purpose computer to your own purposes and merely own a general-purpose computer. Why must programmers do anything to make outsiders more comfortable? What are architects doing to make blueprints easier to read (can you tell i know nothing about architects)? What are doctors doing to break down barriers (15 years of education/training)to the medical field? Why is the experience of discomfort evidence of some problem in the field and not evidence of weakness and mismatched skills? There's a group of people who learned how do program as children by themselves, and there is a group of adults who can't learn to code even with access to limitless information. Somehow the failure to learn isn't their fault.