I feel for people getting into programming today. While GPLed software and better dev environments than I ever had are easily available, there's less of an emph

I feel for people getting into programming today. While GPLed software and better dev environments than I ever had are easily available, there's less of an emphasis on computers being programmable for users - less useful manuals, etc Sure you can get Ruby if you know where/how/of it, but your computer likely doesn't even come with BASIC installed by default.