Why I'm not a programmer

[avocadomaki]

99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library functions. All popular languages are equally good at this. So one can easily spend one's whole career operating in the intersection of popular programming languages.

But the other .5% of programming is disproportionately interesting. If you want to learn what it consists of, the weirdness of weird languages is a good clue to follow.

- Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/weird.html

99.5% of it is very boring, and the other 0.5% is difficult enough that you need a good understanding of maths in order to do it. (I struggled a lot with maths.)