When Dartmouth College launched the Basic language 50 years ago, it enabled ordinary users to write code. Millions did. But we've gone backwards since then, and most users now seem unable or unwilling to create so much as a simple macro
In my experience it doesn’t matter how accessible the language becomes, most people find the precision required to make machines behave in a desirable way is exhausting or alien to them.
This isn’t any kind of failing though. I’ve come to see how organising modern businesses (with processes, regulations, standard etc) is a kind of “programming”. And there are many who are good at that (designing human processes to automate goals) where I completely flounder, even with the help of the ‘right’ training, books, coaching etc
In my experience it doesn’t matter how accessible the language becomes, most people find the precision required to make machines behave in a desirable way is exhausting or alien to them.
This isn’t any kind of failing though. I’ve come to see how organising modern businesses (with processes, regulations, standard etc) is a kind of “programming”. And there are many who are good at that (designing human processes to automate goals) where I completely flounder, even with the help of the ‘right’ training, books, coaching etc