[mikewarot]

I'm 61, and old Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Lazarus programmer when I get the chance. I've just decided to see what my GitHub copilot subscription can really do for me in implementing something like metamine[1], a language I first learned about here on HN that includes a magically equals[1].

It's slow going, learning how to use a virtual assistant to get things done, but it's patient with me, as well. Eventually, however (and to stay relevant to the conversation here), I've started exploring how the code works, and fixing bugs on my own.

Once I get the framework to the point where anyone can try it out, I hope to then go through and understand every freaking line of code, and expand it from there. You're not alone in the desire to grok everything you write. There's a lot of power in that knowledge.

Then I'll re-implement it in Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS... just to prove a point. ;-)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[jamesgill]

I'm a similar age, and encountered Pascal as a learning language in college in the 80s. And then Delphi!