Oh I don't just mean programming; I've run into perfectly intelligent people who nonetheless respond to even the most basic computing tasks as if you've asked them to insert their tenderparts into a badger's den. Now, I'm perfectly willing to accept that some people just won't "get" computers, but I've also seen elderly retirees who took to it like a fish to water once you talked them out of being afraid of the thing in the first place.
Didn't mean programming either. I wanted to add my sense of the absurd burden put onto normal users with computers. These are systems full of cruft (historical, economical) that is impossible to understand really. Always moving for so-called "progress" and fed through authority (which user would ever question the way MS Office or MS Windows works ? they don't know anything else). So most of them will lose any sense of logic when dealing with these machines/OS and I can't blame them.
