"a language that serves advanced users often is simply more polished [..] as a working environment"--Big Ideas of Computational Literacy
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I fear I no longer have much appreciation for what the typical level of computer literacy is.
I work on tools used by other developers, so a ton of my day-to-day life is not at all representative of the population at large.
Enabling Software Literacy https://github.com/zells/core/blob/master/manifesto.md (a manifesto on why today's s/w does not help, and a design of a distributed platform)
Reading lots of "poor books" is also part of literacy: they help the understanding and appreciation of "good books" considerably—Alan Kay