Agreed. It might be somewhat specialized and not a good topic to bring up at your average superbowl party, but then I don't go to those anyway. Programming is

Agreed. It might be somewhat specialized and not a good topic to bring up at your average superbowl party, but then I don't go to those anyway. Programming is about creating something new (or at least enhancing something) and it is done almost literally by thinking it through and simply writing it logically. Things of enormous importance are built this way. That is cool.