> How does one prove that "some people will *never* learn to program"?  All 
> possible approaches
> have now been tried so there are no new innovations to develop?
 
> Computer science has only been around for a bit over 50 years.  In 
> evolutionary terms, that's way
> too short a time to evolve a particular "gene" for geekiness -- even if it 
> could be shown to have some evolutionary advantage.
 
I think this is not the issue. Music education has been around for centuries 
and there are people who just "never" learn music (and people have tried many 
more ways to teach music than they have programming). I think the point is that 
some people simply don't really want to learn to program so don't bother. Most 
people can learn most things (up to certain level) if they want to, they just 
don't want to.

"I'd give my life to be able to play the piano like that!" "Madam, I did"

L.

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