When are people going to understand that programming is not about quickly putting something together?

Programming may have its utility in helping us out building solutions, but that's a secondary function of it.
Ultimately and abstractly, as MIT professors said, it's about the imperative paradigm of solving problems.

I really dislike it when people treat programming as if it were a toolbox. It is a great engineering feat. That's like saying math is just about numbers. No, it is about concepts. We're thinkers, not doers.

@CaptainRant,
I hope this message finds you in good health, away from the savage warfront.

I write to you with an unnerved and concerned mind, hopelessly drawn to the otherwise mild discordance with your comment previous.

You see, my esteemed friend, much as the forgotten art of writing, from times ancient the activity of selecting and ordering words was intended as an illustration of mind most fruitful.
Alas, the hard acquired skills of penmanship were not to be wasted on words carelessly chosen! An entire afternoon was considered well spent on the act of composing a single letter

But then came the unstoppable march of progress, and in type-writing the opportunity to prioritize the conveyance of meaning at the cost of flow and ebb has proven to be irresistible.

Such is the case with algorithms, afraid I am. In the surreptitious context that immerse are developers, most will sacrifice elaborate penmanship in favor of fashion most utilitarian.

Let's pour one out for Shakespeare.cpp

@JsonBoa hey man. Your words have made me teary eyed such is their beauty.

I wish, in all earnestness, that I could favorite a comment.

@anux, I feel honored.