Grow pumpkins, you'll understand why they thought it wasn't such a bad idea. Also don't throw away the flesh, use it.
Not all software developers are Nerds, and if this was true we wouldn't be programming in yet another spin of JavaScript that another language solved 20 years ago or tied to stacks because the 90s senior knows the dell guy.
I've found I just end up doing more work today it started using another language half way through a simple question.
Grow pumpkins, you'll understand why they thought it wasn't such a bad idea. Also don't throw away the flesh, use it.