I remember the first time I learned Excel after graduating college with a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC. When it finally clicked for me what functional

I remember the first time I learned Excel after graduating college with a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC. When it finally clicked for me what functional programming actually did, how every problem can be reduced to a series of relationships, I looked back on my computer sciences classes and thought WTF. So flip the concept on its head: writing imperative code with lines of characters means that almost nobody can be a coder. After wasting most of my life chasing bugs down rabbit holes, I can honestly say that I'm not joking. Visual programming may suck now, but someday it's going to run circles around the crap we're stuck with today.