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Re:Replit Apps by travisjungroth on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:06PM (#27135146)
> Why not, for the same reason that everyone can be - to reasonable standards - be literate?

Not everyone can become literate. Very roughly 0.1% of people lack the mental ability to read, even given lots of training. Flipping your argument around, it's totally possible that programming is that much more difficult than reading that 0.1% of the population isn't unable, but more like 10%.

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Re:Replit Apps by chrisweekly on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:46PM (#27137526)
That's tacit agreement that 90% "literacy" is achievable, which number would be world-changing if it were 25%.
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Re:Replit Apps by travisjungroth on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:56PM (#27137593)
It’s not an agreement that it’s practically achievable any time soon. It’s just that more than 90% of people have brains that are capable of literacy (or did at some point).
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Re:Replit Apps by TchoBeer on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:49PM (#27137548)
even if it's 10% (which imo is pretty high) that's still far off from what we have now.
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