"Chris W" wrote in message
news:OvIcg.50682$9c6.16340@dukeread11...
neo wrote:
Mass training
of pilots who can work on pay equal to pay of car-driver is possible.

I don't believe that is true. People have tried to create programming
languages that can be read and understood by non programmers, they have
all been wasting their time. Programming, like flying an airplane, is a
skill that can not be mastered by everyone.

It's unclear what you mean. Someone who uses a programming language is a
"programmer".

We haven't gotten to the point where computer languages are trivial for
anyone to use. But keep in mind that human beings have a pretty hard time
using *human* languages too.

Computer languages certainly HAVE become much easier to use, and much more
"foolproof" (inasmuch as anything can be foolproof, which is to say "not
much"). I personally would argue that a really good programmer needs to
understand the minute details of how computers operate, but languages like
Java and C#, never mind technologies like PHP, ASP, Javascript, and Ajax,
have opened programming to a much broader range of people. They make it
easy to do things that used to be quite complicated, and restrict the
"programmer" in ways that avoid the most common and dangerous errors.

Likewise, aviation has gotten MUCH easier since its inception, and while
progress is slow, there's no reason to believe it's impossible to make it
available to "the masses". To state that "Most of the people on the road
can't even drive, do you really think those people could learn to fly and be
even close to safe" seriously underestimates technology's ability to remove
obstacles from the path of the unwashed masses.

And yes, when that day comes, flying will be just as annoying a pasttime as
driving can be.

Pete