Right. There is no inherent value in learning a skill that can be meaningfully applied in many careers that have nothing to do with commercial software development.

Back in the day we had the Milton Bradley Big Trak motorized toy vehicle (1979). You programmed it via the keypad, with commands like Forward, Turn, Stop, and Fire Phaser (my personal favorite). Its language supported looping, but not branching. It was copied (by the USSR, of all things), and also widely hacked. A…

“Give me the child until he is seven and I care not who has him thereafter.”