> a moat that the unwashed masses can't cross But this is in fact a good thing. Look at what happens when some uninformed people get together and start discuss

> a moat that the unwashed masses can't cross But this is in fact a good thing. Look at what happens when some uninformed people get together and start discussing "infinity" or some other misunderstood concept from math (which has been around long enough for the moat to disintegrate). If I was locked in a room with three tireless uninformed people discussing math and a gun with a single bullet... Insofar as jargon makes people unable to spout off that kind of nonsense about computers, it's absolutely good, proper, and necessary. If you still doubt that, just look at what happens when the public got their hands on the word "algorithm", just like you see in the article. Not only is the article right insofar as the claim that people don't understand the term, it even provides an excellent example itself of an author completely misunderstanding and abusing the term to the point of nonsense. The thing about the moat is, it takes a lot of climbing to get to the top of that tower, or to any useful height, and we shouldn't be ashamed of that necessary effort. If you get hoi polloi on the grounds below, they're just as happy to stay down there (instead of climbing, i.e., learning) and proceed to destroy the [perceived] value of the education and skills of the people inside.