The next generation looks awesome

**asianator365** · 02-06-09, 03:14 PM

Kids gonna be a billionaire if he knows how to use his work to make money.

**QuickLightning** · 02-06-09, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by asianator365

Kids gonna be a billionaire if he knows how to use his work to make money.

Being good at grunt work doesn't make you a billionaire. If he can come up with an idea and implement it, then that's another story.

Being a great programmer will do nothing short of securing you a lifetime of middle-class wages.

The kid has a lot of potential though. I'll give him that.

**joker23** · 02-06-09, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by jmw_man

He wrote it in Pascal, an elementary programming language. Well, not elementary in my eyes but in the programming world it's easy. I remember I took a Pascal programming computer class in college in 1998. I didn't pay attention, nor did I do my homework, I withdrew. Though, looking back on it now, I wish I had stuck it out. Right now, the only programming experience I have right now is through, Matlab and Basic stamp, lol.

Actually, Pascal was designed as a to teach people to program and was not originally designed to be a full fledged language.

**joker23** · 02-06-09, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by Consultant

What were you doing when you were NINE?
Playing t-ball and looking up girls skirts?
This kid pwns, elementary language or not.

I plead the fifth, lest my geek show.

**Consultant** · 02-06-09, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Axeager

Once again on the BBC news website, haha.

**Langrad** · 02-06-09, 04:58 PM

it did say he was fluent in 6 programming laungages

**DJ Ms. White** · 02-06-09, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Consultant

Originally Posted by Axeager

Once again on the BBC news website, haha.

It annoys Axe how much I reference that site.

**Kanati** · 02-06-09, 06:49 PM

The language you write a program in doesn't matter in the least. The end result is the only thing that does.

Pascal and BASIC have matured over the years. Pascal evolved into a very robust language that eventually evolved into Delphi. Delphi 2009 is out, and I think they have packages for .NET and even a Delphi for PHP package. There's nothing you can do with other high level languages that you can't do with Delphi/Pascal.

My language of choice is VB.NET. VB was built off of Basic when windows came out. It quickly became THE most popular programming language in the world. I think C# is quickly gaining on it these days, but that's been microsoft's goal since they created the language. They've positioned C# to be the successor to their VC++ and VB packages from day one and it's a very very capable language.

Sure... You can be all 1337 and worry about creating a 37k executable vs a 50k executable... use C and inline assembly... But... Your program won't be any better than one created in Delphi, VB, or C# (or any number of other high level languages for that matter) and all things equal, it will take CONSIDERABLY more time to accomplish the same programming task.

So... If that kid is a pascal guru at age 9... More power to him. He has a bright future ahead of him.