Right. Let's keep the rest of the world illiterate, as long as we keep making nice salaries. The "baffling" obsession might come from the fact that many progra

Right. Let's keep the rest of the world illiterate, as long as we keep making nice salaries. The "baffling" obsession might come from the fact that many programmers realize that basic programming knowledge is the coming equivalent of literacy. And that they'd never be in the position they're in now if generations of CS people hadn't freely shared what they learned.