From: Christophe Grandsire Date: 2005-10-29T00:04:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Oldest Ruby hacker? Selon pat eyler : > > Hacking Ruby at 14 is pretty cool though. :) > That ain't nothing! ( ;) ) I was already programming when I was 6, and it wasn't in Ruby only because Ruby didn't exist yet. Hey, I had already written a fully fledged text editor when I was 14, all in BASIC (Amstrad CPC BASIC). I remember having to deal with the cursor issue and the editor buffer and the text display all by myself. Can't remember how I did it though (and I don't have the program anymore :( ). And then one wonders why I didn't take a CS education. Must be all that brain-washing from my parents and my teachers that programming "wouldn't put bread on the table." Now I have to content myself with a M.Sc in Physics :( ... Seriously though, it's indeed pretty cool to see people of the age of 14 already hacking away :) . -- Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.