[yellowapple]

Quite a few "non-programmer" workers do indeed write software already, and have been doing so for decades now. The only trouble is that said software exists in the form of Excel spreadsheets and Access databases ;)

It'd be interesting to see such "programming-but-it-doesn't-really-feel-like-programming" environments get generalized a bit into something that can produce proper general-purpose applications (preferably in a form that's actually friendly to sensible version control systems).