"Excited, we presented our prototype to a small number of non-programmers and sat back to watch the magic. To our horror, not a single one of them could figure out what the simple example program did or how it worked, nor could they produce any useful programs themselves." (From the article linked above).
As a programmer, I had the same reaction, actually.
yeah, that was a very early version that we never released publicly, but was effectively a cleaned up version "Aurora," which I presented at Strange Loop once upon a time ago.
As a programmer, I had the same reaction, actually.