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Sure but plenty of people are attracted to programming because they are not creative. Pretending that they don't exist or pretending that everyone is great at everything is not accurate.



Are engineers creative? Physicists? Mathematicians? I don't know if you have a very narrow definition of creativity or if you seriously think that the people who created all the software that you use everyday are not creative


No. The definition of "creativity" is to have the desire and ability to create new stuff. Many people express their creativity by creating computer programs.




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