Re: And so it continues...

Programming requires proper training, and not everyone is capable of doing this well.

No matter how good the language(s) or tool(s), in the hands of the untrained, it can even be dangerous.

CASE STUDY
When I was in college in the 1970s, my mother worked for a company that had IBM EAM (electronic accounting machines) punched card equipment, the kind you "programmed" with wires on a plug-board. This system ran their business, reading punched cards, and printing invoices, printing checks, and reports, etc., successfully, for a good many years. This was a "not for profit" corporation so their margins were rather thin.

Then, along came a slick fellow who sold them on the idea that they needed to "modernize" and sold them an IBM System/3 or System/32. He also sold them his own "consulting services" and claimed that he could write all the new applications programs, equivalent to the old punch card system, in RPG II.
When the time came to "go live" he had arranged for a salvage company to come in and take away the old IBM EAM equipment (which was highly prized because they contained valuable metals, such as gold-plated connectors, etc.), on the very same day they "cut over" to the new system. (No concept of running the new system "in parallel" with the old, and thus being able to check the results against the original system, or in the event that problems were found, they could have continued to use the old system.)

It was soon discovered that the new system was sending out invoices to people that should have been receiving checks, and vice versa, thus ensuring that the company now had zero cash flow coming in, and rapidly "pissing off" both their customers and the vendors who supplied the merchandise. The fellow doing the programming kept promising to "fix" the problem(s), but what ensued was a typical horror story of one problem after another.

Within less than one year of the "cut-over" to this new system, this company was "out of business" -- Chapter 7. No Chapter 11 reorganization -- game over!