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I sent this article to my son, who taught himself to program in BASIC at the age of eight, and now is a programmer for Google. I always thought that those born in the early seventies were an accidentally privileged generation, for the reasons explained in this article. But my son has always disagreed, and still does. His answer arrived this morning:
"BASIC! Oh David Brin, you weird old coot.
HTML is the new BASIC. My Space is the new Apple II. Kids these days get it."
I still disagree with my son on this matter. But he's the expert, so I guess I just have to accept his judgement.
