I completely agree with the author and I would like to add my opinion to it as well. As a computer science graduate, I had formal training (as in courses) at a

I completely agree with the author and I would like to add my opinion to it as well. As a computer science graduate, I had formal training (as in courses) at all essential levels of dealing with computer, from hardware to assembly language to high-level languages. and even the theory of computation. After years of having formal training and hands on experience, I finally stopped doing any programming for fun and just stick to my day job and hate every minute of it. BTW, I have to work with worst programming language ever made by mankind: C++ (that is a statement, not a challenge dear professor Strostrup). Why? because making anything useful takes toooooo much time even for an expert. For example, I had SQLite database full of text and wanted to format it as PDF. I was expecting to do it in like 10-20 lines of script, and it took me almost a week to do it. Every simple idea that I have ends up being hundreds of lines of code with complicated logic. It is just not worth the time. I ended up using Microsoft Word to generate my PDFs instead of writing a script, although I have to convert every document manually by clicking through MS Word. One of the main issue is that programming is stuck in the 80s, especially for Mac and Open Source developers. Everything has to be done through the terminal. We have to look at walls of code for simple things. And every programmer have to start in terminal. When I started programming in 1997, I used QBASIC IDE in the terminal. One of the first things I learned was stepping through my code and examining variables. The second main issue is that because the programming is stuck in the 80s and the times of POSIX standard, all systems have diverged to the point that very little functionality is provided by the system to the developer. The third issue is the programming language itself. It does not have to be ASCII based. It can be visual. There are thousands of experiments with it and yet, still the mainstream programming is still ASCII based and the hot topic of debate in programming languages is whether to be indent-based or use curly braces. Almost all of the main stream languages on top of the charts today are created before 2000. We need more languages suited to today's software patterns.