On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:20 PM, opinali <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, October 1, 2011 5:07:13 PM UTC-4, Ricky Clarkson wrote: >> >> I'm not a parent either, but I suspect that four might be a bit early for >>> sticking the kid into a machine >> >> >> I started programming at age 5 on a Spectrum 48K and no harm came of it >> besides the usual BASIC braindamage (no multiline functions on a 48K, only >> goto, gosub and return - if I'm wrong someone please pop back to '86 and >> tell me). Though those who know me best might disagree. >> > > Well I disagree a bit on the "brain damage" part :) >
Yeah, it's nonsense. Probably close to 100% of the great developers that I know started with BASIC. I bet most people on this list over the age of thirty did as well. I think we all turned out okay. Like I wrote some time ago on this subject, "It's not about BASIC, it's about the magic"<http://beust.com/weblog/2011/05/31/forget-basic-its-about-the-magic/> . -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
