So it feels just like in college where we had to learn these languages, syntaxes, semantics, before the term ends, and cram and exhaust ourselves before the test.

Cognitive researchers argue late teens to early 20s is the zeitgeist that is the hardest to shake.

That seems to explain the obsession with Reagan era economics and politics of the >50 crowd

Millennials have been in "learn new abstraction" mode for a couple decades regardless such output doesn't really move science forward. Is just learning a new state storage and state mutation syntax

End of the day its labeling some math with some biz edge case

I like the idea of such not being in the code at all. Taking anti-oop to the extreme; code need just be geometric functions to draw on the screen be it text shapes or video game entities

Then we can label on the presentation layer the human context

Then programming can go away.