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Philip Greenspun is, in fact a programmer. He's probably best known in these circles for the quote "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

It is possible to be both a pilot and a programmer.

This is referred to in the industry as a "Dr. McNinja scenario."

(... nobody refers to it as that ;) ).

Are you claiming Greenspun is not a programmer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita

https://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/

not only is he a programmer, but he has opinions on teaching programming.