I doubt he blatantly lied; I take it to mean that most likely he started playing with a language and wrote a hello-world program (or similar) at that age. I fi

I doubt he blatantly lied; I take it to mean that most likely he started playing with a language and wrote a hello-world program (or similar) at that age. I first "wrote code" at 8-9. I was in 3rd-4th grade (I started school early), my older brother was in 7th-8th grade and had his first computer classes at school, which had PC Logo at 7th and Quick Pascal at 8th grades (school in Asia). He showed them to me and I wrote lines that made the turtle move in PC Logo, and wrote Quick Pascal programs that spit back out what the user typed in. I imagine he went through something similar. I soon stopped playing with them, and didn't get back into programming until 13-14 when I first made web sites in HTML and learned writing CGI scripts in Perl, that was the late 90s. I think I can imagine playing with code slightly younger than I was when I first did.