Many years ago, when programming systems were rudimentary, the difference between the professional and amateur was not nearly so pronounced. Today, however, so many of the things amateurs want to do have been made implicit in our systems that the gulf is a wide—and widening—one. Paradoxically, however, as the gulf has widened, the amateurs have become less and less aware of it, for they have become less and less aware of what the system is doing for them.
