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And if you want to learn Ruby, check out Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby [unfortunately, it's currently unfinished]

Now we have languages that are hard enough for gurus to read half the time, and others that are so wonderful and elegant that I believe janitors of today could learn and use quite easily.

I remember using my first computer at age 5 and playing around with BASIC, and I could do a reasonable amount with it. Lets be glad though that most of us have moved on :>