Maybe, but I don't think so. If anything, I'm understating things.
> The public and businesses have benefited a ton from software written by non-experts and low-quality software.
Yes but that has to be balanced against all the problems and delays and lost work, etc... that low-quality software has caused.
> I think Excel spreadsheets still drive more value creation than most professional apps.
That's what I'm saying: Excel's benefits don't require full-on programmers to reap them, normal everyday people can "program" Excel. It's not the ultimate be-all-end-all program, but it's damn near.
> The people you refer to don't usually write it.
By "it" do you mean Excel or the spreadsheets? I think you mean spreadsheets.
> They mostly go to best paying companies in tech or finance. You could say our baseline is dependent on people with less skill stepping up to do what better developers weren't willing to do.
I'm saying, in a nutshell, that the really good programmers should write infrastructure and "meta-tools" like Excel (or Elm-lang) and most folks should be able to get their daily problems solved and work done without recourse to too much technical folderol.
Maybe, but I don't think so. If anything, I'm understating things.
> The public and businesses have benefited a ton from software written by non-experts and low-quality software.
Yes but that has to be balanced against all the problems and delays and lost work, etc... that low-quality software has caused.
> I think Excel spreadsheets still drive more value creation than most professional apps.
That's what I'm saying: Excel's benefits don't require full-on programmers to reap them, normal everyday people can "program" Excel. It's not the ultimate be-all-end-all program, but it's damn near.
> The people you refer to don't usually write it.
By "it" do you mean Excel or the spreadsheets? I think you mean spreadsheets.
> They mostly go to best paying companies in tech or finance. You could say our baseline is dependent on people with less skill stepping up to do what better developers weren't willing to do.
I'm saying, in a nutshell, that the really good programmers should write infrastructure and "meta-tools" like Excel (or Elm-lang) and most folks should be able to get their daily problems solved and work done without recourse to too much technical folderol.