 If everyone could program, would you feel less self-worth?
jacquesm: Programming is not like reading, it is more like solving puzzles.Everybody can learn how to program at some level. But few really enjoy it and even fewer will feel satisfaction at squashing some obscure bug. It is closely related to having patience and to tinker with stuff.I'd be more than happy to have the rest of the world program at some high level but I find it very hard to imagine a world where it is required to solve puzzles.Just like you can't make the scientific method a requirement for life you can't do that with programming either. It works, and well, but not everybody will be able to even if you mandate it.Compare it with mandating everybody to be able to play the violin tomorrow, and what effect that would have on the self-worth of the violinists today...