The Bjarne Stroustrup interview continues with a great quote.
The idea of programming as a semiskilled task, practiced by people with a few months’ training, is dangerous. I couldn’t agree more.
Bjarne goes on to say We wouldn’t tolerate plumbers or accountants that poorly educated. We don’t have as an aim that architecture (of buildings) and engineering (of bridges and trains) should become more accessible to people with progressively less training. Indeed, one serious problem is that currently, too many software developers are undereducated and undertrained.