The problem isn't that dumb people can't be programmers. The problem is the extent to which smart people can't be programmers if they want to have time for anything else. Really, how much of the complexity of the average coding task today is essential to the problem being solved, and how much is essentially having to know trivia about one platform or language (or version of either) versus another?

Or maybe the "How much more funding do you think us Martian soil scientists would get if there were something up there besides moon dust" sort of way.

I wonder if it was Freudian the way they used the word "exonerate", i.e. liberate from an accusation, instead of "eliminate"? Feeling guilty boys?

(For the record, I don't actually think anyone did anything.)