> I'm not in his target audience either. I enjoy interacting with people and ideas more than getting a computer to do what I want. This is why in my teens I spe

> I'm not in his target audience either. I enjoy interacting with people and ideas more than getting a computer to do what I want. This is why in my teens I spent more time reading math books than playing with computers. Interesting perspective, and similar to mine. I gravitated towards this industry because of the problems to solve, not the means of solving them. I have been taking things apart to figure out how they work since I was 6 or so. I didn't even have a computer until I was 17, but I was already dead set on becoming some sort of engineer because I loved those sorts of challenges. In fact, I ended up going electrical because in undergrad I decided I hated programming but loved physical electronics and electrical wiring. I came back to programming after I had been working for a few years and discovered that real-world programming was not like the classes I hated. I don't know where that puts me in Jacques' eyes. I like using knowledge and technology to solve problems, but I don't care what particular technology it is. Sometimes I feel like an outsider in this industry, because I interact with so many people who love programming in itself and tend to look down on those who do not. I don't feel attacked by this post but I do feel he is drawing up a false dichotomy between those who "[l]earned to program as a kid" and "totally fell in love with it", and those who are in this industry for the money, have little or no technical knowledge, and no desire to gain any more than the bare minimum of technical knowledge required to achieve their financial goals.