I take a big issue with your presentation of programming in the sixties and seventies as “ standardized, rote, and repetitive”. It is insulting to women programmers such as Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, Barbara Liskov, and my own mother. Women were “let in” into the profession as there was no money in it, and were pushed out of it when big money showed up, as with many other professions. Then the narrative was invented to explain why women have no natural aptitude for the job (but it didn’t matter in the beginning, as the job was different then). It was not and we should not support this fake narrative.