It's the pop culture mentality which is now worse than ever:

[2004] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

"So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture."

"Like I said, it’s a pop culture. A commercial hit record for teenagers doesn’t have to have any particular musical merits. I think a lot of the success of various programming languages is expeditious gap-filling."