Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> 
> Oh, that's cute. 

And useful - we make a couple of new nerds every year ;). Just try to
guess what I started doing every summer when I was 10 years old (missed
1 year so far, I'm 26 now).

> (How many million LoC is Doom? Sure, it does software
> rendering, but even so...) ;-)

For the record, I have actually no idea.

> My response is typically of the form "learning how to program a computer
> is like learning to speak French. It takes more than 5 minutes..."

We just teach them to program. Pretty soon they'll notice it's not
*that* easy, but some of them get into programming and continue it :).

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Eero "Aero" Ahonen
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