I agree. Programming shouldn't be (just) thought of as engineering, but also as simply giving the computer complex instructions. There is also the story about RMS teaching secretaries to program Emacs by not telling them Lisp is a programming language.
> Programming shouldn't be (just) thought of as engineering, but also as simply giving the computer complex instructions.
I really like this phrasing. I'm not really an engineer. My code is mostly rough, but it is functional and does what I need it to. I don't program to build a skyscraper, I program so my computer can do a thing I need it to do.
