[klrr]

I've been into computers since I was 9 years old as well, and I was interested in anything electrical before that. My point is that most here (on HN at least) have started out early, running around bragging about is just silly in my opinion. It also is a bit discouraging for people who have not started out yet. I remember thinking I had to give programming up since I did not know that awesome language X at age Y. When I learnt some high-level concept people said learn C, when I learnt some low-level concept people said learn Haskell. Later in life I understood that I had actually achieved to learn many advanced concepts, which will be useful for my entire life. It just was disturbing to me personally (and I think many others) who had very low confidence back then.