This is an excellent point and goal. I've always thought that one of the better things we could do is to make programming not specialized; e.g. Excel-as-a-prog

This is an excellent point and goal. I've always thought that one of the better things we could do is to make programming not specialized; e.g. Excel-as-a-programming-language has arguably done more to bring programming to the masses than any other "real" language, and perhaps THAT's the goal.