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Yeah, the "Great minds" are still going to have a bigger lead when it comes to understanding language details, which are trivial semantic implementation concerns compared to understanding concepts. Programming itself is the boring part; it's merely transcription of concepts into machine-legible code. The concepts themselves, many of which are not even limited to the domain of computer science, are where all the interesting content is to be found.

When I say boring, I mean relatively; there is some "puzzle solving" merit to programming per se. But this is mere mechanics and minor compared to the experience of manipulating ideas into practicable forms before writing them out in code.