[Glench]

Yo, I have to say something about the sexism in the parent comment for this thread. Specifically:

  > You want my mother to be programming? My sister?

This is sexist because it assumes that those people (women) can't / shouldn't be / aren't programmers. It's exclusionary and has the effect of making people who aren't male / professional programmers feel unwelcome. If instead you specified something like "people without proper training shouldn't build important systems" then that would be more accurate without being sexist.

And yes, of course we'd like your mother and sister to program, in the same way we want everyone to be able to read and write or drive a car. Programming is a wonderful tool that can do so much in many different contexts, and limiting that power to an elite few is a tragic loss of potential.

[AstralStorm]

Let's be ageist instead, since that is apparently more acceptable. /s

> you want my granddad to do programming?

[Glench]

You can skirt being prejudiced toward a specific group by just using the general case of someone inexperienced with programming.