Comment 100 yrs ago computers didn't exist (Score 1) 287
100 years ago computer science did not exist. The first computer that accepted code was made 70 years ago (ENiAC). The Alan Turing's basic concept for Computer Science was not published until 1936 - 77 years ago. The number of lines of code is not a true value of a computer coder. And 400,000 million lines of the same printf("hello world") really isn't any more different from a chimpanzee typing "S" a million times on a type writer. Code development is hierarchal activity-venture(not parallel) and usable code is limited how many programmers can be coordinated to work together to solve a problem Anything else is just the Infinite Monkey Theorem - where one puts millions and millions of chimpanzees in front of a computer desktop and waits (forever) for them to write the next killer app of Apple.
Most people that don't code - underestimate the difficulty and emotionally intense of real world computer development. Coding is more like ghost writing or being a language translator because a programmer-analyst is always trying to write what others want to hear or read (regardless of how well his target audience is able to communicate) - in larger projects people butt heads and moving forward can be problematic at times. So not only do you need an intellectual IQ higher than a monkey - you need the emotional IQ of a saint at times..