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Computer programming was the accidental and largely unloved offspring of electrical engineering. This origin played a critical role in the development of programming as an occupation. The routinization of computer programming, while patterned after its parent field, is also facilitated by recent developments such as "high-level" languages, canned programs, and structured programming. The subsequent deskilling of programmers as a group calls into question arguments that increasingly sophisticated technology in the workplace creates work which is more complex and challenging than the work it displaces.
Philip Kraft (Tue,) studied this question.