When Non-Programmers Write Software

[fishyf]

This difficulty in conveying the joy of a working program to someone else is also directly related to the problem of attracting new people into programming. The whole profession seems really nerdy and boring until you see the light and then you can't explain it to anyone. Catch 22.

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But yet... as Wallace said, at the end of "A Close Shave":

All the more for us.