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by xxs 1933 days ago
>when we talk about our youth and learning to program as a 14 year old or something

what 14? That's late indeed. The story has to be preschool to be awe-worthy.

For instance: "12/13y old writes the shortest assembly routine to move the head of the floppy drive of Apple II", doesn't sound grounbreaking - even if the code was better/shorter than DOS, itself. Solving massive world problems is a totally different scale.