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One of the more stubbornly persistent recurring themes from tech curmudgeons goes something like this. “When I was young, computers shipped with BASIC, and you had to laboriously type in programs from magazines to make the do _anything_. Computers these days are shiny, hermetically sealed boxes with no built-in language that do anything you want at the press of a button. In this way, we are betraying future generations of nerds to grow up without the advantages we had.” →