The nice people at the New Jersey Institute of Technology asked a dozen people for some extremely brief thoughts on the impactfulness of computer programming in the coming economy, and were kind enough to include me among those dozen.
And yes, impactfulness is a perfectly cromulent word; it embiggens the language.
The only technically true job title better than “Eric Lippert – Software Engineer at Facebook” I can think of right now is “Jon Skeet – Methodist preacher”.
Hey, engineering software is what I do! Though my personal cards say “designer of fine programming languages”.