I should have been more clear in my writing as I did not mean to suggest most people could program, but that even smart people with the potential to learn it (a

I should have been more clear in my writing as I did not mean to suggest most people could program, but that even smart people with the potential to learn it (a very small percentage) generally are not interested in investing the time. I agree, text (reading and writing) is definitely a dying art, especially in America, although to me it seems to be part of the whole anti-intellectual culture brewing here and in other parts of the world. Perl?