> Writing was art for a long part of human history but it's not anymore. Same is going to be true for programming. While I want to believe this is true, at lea

> Writing was art for a long part of human history but it's not anymore. Same is going to be true for programming. While I want to believe this is true, at least here in the US, I have trouble accepting it. Primarily because so few people you talk to on a day-to-day basis outside of tech are even capable of understanding the most basic concepts. I've even met plenty of people within tech that can't. Introducing people to programming at an earlier age may help sure but we do that with writing and literacy and yet the list of people generally considered "truly great" at writing is still a very small percentage of the population. The big difference being that when I open my old, 1950's typewriter, and decide to type up a little short story that would probably make Stephen King weep for his art, a billion dollar company doesn't crash, a few million credit card numbers don't get leaked, or any of the other countless things that go terribly wrong when programmers screw up. I really do hope we get past the point where stuff like that is a regular occurrence, where computers and networks really are secure, and programming is taught at a young age. I just have trouble seeing any part of it becoming a reality any time soon.