It is quite hard to set one's mind on the right track reading news in Japan. It's like nobody understand anything. Do they have any idea why US comapnies beat all those companies around the world? It's because they are positive and competitive. Just say this out loud -- the machines won't run without the software -- theirs or mine or whatever.

What, the newspaper got Alzheimer's disease!?

彼らの指導方法は以下の通りである。人間はブラックボックスである。そして、自然にプログラムを書くようになる。

One of the unfortunate prejudice of non-programmer is that they think their teenage kids (or their teenage friends) can write the same quality software as I do ;}. Not that they could have when they were younger, either. Ultimately, the best possible piece of codes can only be created by those who need it. There is no guarantee that they ever will be able to write any softwere (that would serve my purposes). What if they could? It only means that 'we got a very efficient secretary'.