> Programming is a wild card - you can play it to improve any hand you have. This is the truth. Every success I've had has been where I've applied my computin

> Programming is a wild card - you can play it to improve any hand you have. This is the truth. Every success I've had has been where I've applied my computing skills to an environment where no-one with those skills had yet appeared. The efficiency gains you can make to mundane, non-computing tasks by applying a bit of programming knowledge will often knock the socks off people who've been doing things the same old way for years.