Matt pens some thoughts on easier programming, interesting to me is anything Andy Hertzfeld has to say. After struggling with Pascal and C in college I decided to put my braincells to full time work on the human interface design side instead. I think easy programming simply becomes part of the interface; like recordable actions in Photoshop. Normal programming stays hard (by becoming more advanced) and in the domain of people who dedicate themselves to it. I don’t plan to change my ways anytime soon.