Because when I was a kid, and I turned on my Apple computer, I found I could start coding right now... I mean right now. Write and run. No apps, no compile, no

Because when I was a kid, and I turned on my Apple computer, I found I could start coding right now... I mean right now. Write and run. No apps, no compile, no editor, nothing. It was just a bizarre and wonderful thing. In 3rd grade I had a logo class, but I didn't get it right away because I didn't have logo at home. When I learned the "break" command from a friend, and some other command to show the code, I started printing every program I could. I didn't understand it, but it was like I found a secret world. I tried to show my son how to program something, and it took so many things to even get started in every environment we worked in. By the time you got some code out, a lot of effort was expended on non-productive things. Things that he stumbled over just to get to the code. With the Apple, there was literally nothing in between you and the code. I found out about lo-res graphics from a friend and made my own animations by drawing the screen (I used graph paper to map out my drawings) and I was able to draw black over parts of it and then draw something else. I figured this out on my own from experimenting. You can't experiment and "guess" through coding today, it's too complicated. Oh well, rant is over.