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I fundamentally despise this concept of 'non-devs'. There's just a cyclical definition of non-devs as people who use non-dev tools and vice versa.

It's extremely common to dismiss tools used by certain classes of people as non-programmer tools because of who's using them. Look at Excel, which is basically a visual programming language that probably more people know how to program in than know C. But because your boss or your project manager or your sales rep uses it it gets dismissed.

Never mind that unlike these things that crop up every now and then people get real work done by programming their computer with it.



Excel's programmability is vastly underrated for some reason. It's easily one of the most high-level and successful languages ever, fulfilling a wide variety of roles for countless people, so simple that a child could use it, and so flexible that your boss probably does, too.




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