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by abritinthebay 3245 days ago
Right, exactly - I've been coding in some form since I was 5 (in BASIC and PEEK and POKES) but the stuff I did as a teenager was fun exploration play.

It's important to do that! That's great for a programmer and it will likely have some cool ideas... and hell, maybe a product or something will come from it.

But the original post was just naive.