> That's not the point... by bringing up age as an important factor, you are then discounting the work. I think this isnt valid in this case - the work is more

> That's not the point... by bringing up age as an important factor, you are then discounting the work. I think this isnt valid in this case - the work is more impressive exactly because it is being done by someone that young, and this is so huge accomplishment because it is so much easier and more common thing to achieve at later age. I can't see his work being discounted here. > Regardless of my age, I think my work should stand on its own against anything that currently exists. I also can't agree with that - if you have 30 years of programming experience and what you're making are hello-world type of programs (that's what I was doing around 14) then you are obviously underperforming and simply doing bad. However, at 14 the very same work was already outstanding when compared to my friends at the same age, because most of what they were doing was running around on the yard. And none of them ended up as a professional runner (but still, they might be happier today than me, being professional hello-world engineer ;)