Would you like some takeaways with your plastic?

And so the epic saga of StarWars beings

I agree, I was more meaning that logic is an important skill and programming is one vehicle towards teaching this skill. This can be done in a way that a teacher can assess that the person has learnt the skill. Sure, you can write terribly illogical code, but it won't be elegant and will be unlikely to solve complex problems. Any skilled teacher should then be able to guide you in where your logic is flawed. How else do you propose that logic is taught? i.e. what mechanism should be used?

Despite the silliness of his argument. More collaboration on most opensource software would actually be better, but not when there is no alternative. I believe you need at least two open source alternatives, with development teams that can try different approaches, but from this there should be one collaborative project that combines the best of both. The latter should be the de-facto standard. This would be a good thing for the opensource community as it would unite instead of divide a small pool of resources. Further to the point, it would not diminish options as the truly technical savvy can install either variant, or still make their unique version of either. Creativity would still be able to thrive without needing countless options that are essential the same with a small layer of veneer.

It should be taught at school like mathematics. People could do with a little bit more logic to their arguments, approach to the world and in general.

VHDL, C, C++, Julia, Python, Javascript and Java

Is it too much to ask that the title matches the description of the article? "Scientists hack photosynthesis" ... yet in the very same description: "Plants have a whole complicated chemical assembly line to carry out this detoxification, and the process uses up a lot of energy. This means the plant has less energy for making leaves, or food for us. Cavanagh and her colleagues in a research program called Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE), which is based at the University of Illinois, have spent the last five years trying to fix Rubisco's problem. "We're sort of hacking photosynthesis," she says". So they hacked a downstream process not photosynthesis. This type of sloppy journalism is what is making me loose all faith in this profession. Either read what you wrote or don't even bother. Thanks

No, Mars is a barren wasteland that is not worth colonising. Also, this would need funding beyond a single country and I don't see any countries working together at this level anymore (especially not on a lost cause).