Thinking of food analogies: maybe CS is the salt of programming languages. It's not great by itself, it's just slightly nicer than what you were using before. N

Thinking of food analogies: maybe CS is the salt of programming languages. It's not great by itself, it's just slightly nicer than what you were using before. No-one discusses salt by itself, but they see some bland food and know it would be better with some more salt. Some people are addicted, but nobody thinks salt sucks. Except some zealots, but you always try to change the topic when they bring it up. [not to argue analogies, of course; I see what you were going for]