It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information. So it is with the great programmers. The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle. The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones. Like punning, programming is a play on words. Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful.