[myme]

Author here. Thank you for this and from what I can tell you're nailing my frame of mind and where I was coming from with this.

Writing valid computer programs - from "Hello, World!" and the likes - is safe to say "easy". What programming has turned into - and what a large percentage of professional programmers have to deal with on a daily basis - is not.

So it's an article sure to stir up some comments, because we're all coming at it from different angles and people considering themselves programmers fill a wide variety of roles in their companies and in the profession. If people feel they're having an easy time, good on them! But neither feel no shame when the imposter starts creeping in on you or you feel the mountain you have to climb is too tall.