[ilaksh]

My opinion is that programming is literally defined by editing text files with difficult to comprehend source code. Anything that is easier or deviates from that is by definition not programming and therefore something users do.

The rationalization is that anyone using an easier tool to program computers without as much code must not be able to use code. Therefore us programmers are better than them.

Its very similar to the earlier era of punchcard programmers scoffing at assembly language programmers. Or hand-tool craftsmen sneering at mass-produced component-based manufacturing.

That infantile belief system will persist until super-intelligent AIs revise it or (maybe) the next generation wises up.