Actually could not agree more.
Our main professor in college in the 1980's told us if we wanted to be programmers, wed better be positione permanently by 1999-2000. As he said after that time programming would begin to become a lost art.
This is the man that had us using "c" less than 5 years after k&r first edition was out. We had no )language courses). Our classes were "yada yada" using "c" or such and such with assembler.
I ca say I learned "c" first because i was assembly cballenged, and seconccas a guinnea pig to test courses then taught with PASCAL with C.
C++ was a direct response for people who couldnt understand pointers and linked lists, b-trees, etc.
VISUAL BASIC was is a feel good approa h to coding.....draw the frm then copy some macros.
Sorry that is not coding it is data entry.
State of IT coders at resent is dismal. Without microsoft they are helpless.