U need a programming language. Simple as that.

David Heinemeier Hansson talks about how ruby on rails lowers the bar and make programming more accessible. He stress the fact that 'There's No Such Thing as a "Pure" Programmer' but in the end accomplishing great thinks in programming can’t be easy, it takes thousands of decisions, so we will still need some language of expression, a programming language.

Full Interview on Talk on 'big Thing'