RE: FN-FORUM Oh no, no, no....

date posted 13th December 2002 21:43

Yea I second that. I was coding simple Basic programs via terminal link
to the PDP-11 at Hatfield Polytechnic at the age of 7 and basic assembly
code by 10. None of this point and click bullshit that this kid has
supposedly mastered,

Hutch

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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Oh no, no, no....

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Andrew Mottershead wrote:

> I honestly think it's excellent - not the frontpage M$ aspect - the
fact
> that a kid of 5 could be even interested in this sort of thing

I was hacking around with BASIC when I was 8/9 and on Z80 machine code
by
about 12. That wasn't terribly uncommon during the 80s, it's only kids
today
who haven't known the pleasure of programming "from the ground up". ;-)

> - I suspect his parents....

In the photos he looks quite peed off, actually - especially the ones
with
Gates and Chelsea Clinton...

> Andrew Mottershead

Best Regards,
Alex.
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