It's strange that we live in such a bifurcated world, that on the one hand we have astronomical demands for a certain class of program, but for the kinds of pro

It's strange that we live in such a bifurcated world, that on the one hand we have astronomical demands for a certain class of program, but for the kinds of programs we use day-to-day, they're shockingly procedural. Programmers, by virtue of being a little bit understanding and forgiving of computers' nature, can enjoy software that frustrates the hell out of normal people. It gets pounded into us over and over again that normal people are the right standard to build software to, but once in a while we should allow ourselves to enjoy something like the blocks program, even if it would never pass an A/B test against a blank screen.