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Sorry nobody upvoted you. I much prefer your argument! I particularly liked the phrase The execution might as well be left to an automaton. This is the part of the profession - tedious trivial logical translation from specification to program - that I refer to as 'floor sweeping', rather than programming proper (analysis/design/interesting problem solving stuff). Perhaps the percentage of our industry remaining to be liberated from that drugery is high, unfortunately the liberators must be themselves.