You might notice that the historical solution to this problem was "teach people to read and write (program)" not "express all ideas in pictographs so that the i

You might notice that the historical solution to this problem was "teach people to read and write (program)" not "express all ideas in pictographs so that the illiterate masses can understand them". We improved classical literacy by turning people into readers and writers. We improve computer literacy by teaching people to become programmers, not by trying to dumb down programming to something that the plebes can understand. I'm all for turning more non-programmers into programmers. The issue isn't that as much as it is the issue of this fantasy that if it wasn't for those dastardly geeks who want to be lazy and charge a ton of money for it, everybody could program with no real work, which is just pure bull puck.