are programmers "failures"?

[Albert Chan]

I don't think programmers are "failures". It is just that computers are dumb.
It required every details, exceptions, fully spelled-out.

For example, recently in the Lua forum, people were discussing how to recognize end of a sentence.

Period after a space considered a sentence.
Last sentence may not have a period.
Ignore names with initials: say e. e. cummings
Need a database of abbreviation, say Mr., A.D.
Except, abbreviation happened to be end of sentence. Uh, how to tell ?
Period may be used for other purpose, say, decimal point, web address, ...