[la_barba]

Maybe the solution is that we need to get away from general purpose languages for most software. There could be very powerful visual languages that one could develop given a specific domain. I work in pharma and I see a ton of scope for this, especially for the automation of daily work. Scientists might not be the best with C but they could be amazing given a DSL in a domain that they completely grok. I've begun working more and more with Siemens' S7 GRAPH language for sequential process control and its bloody amazing how it lets me visually represent complicated state transitions, loops and conditional logic in a very easy to understand intuitive way. It also lets you establish pre/post invariants, etc. I used to scoff at PLCs thinking I could trivially write than in C, but even ladder logic has humbled me more than a few times.