>offers a radical range of enterteinment we didn't have in our times. I think this is the answer, while I was growing up and learning PASCAL and BASIC (Thank y

>offers a radical range of enterteinment we didn't have in our times. I think this is the answer, while I was growing up and learning PASCAL and BASIC (Thank you dad) it was the only way to have access/play with "a computer". Nowadays there are much more shinier and prettier and lets face it more fun computers in our(theirs) immediate environment that does a lot more than "readline a; print a;"