Re:I'm glad I was too young to use that (Score 1)

It depends on what you think fun is. If you think that fun means tweaking here and there to find that optimization that will give you a 10% speedup, or save you a few bytes, then you are right. I agree that there's nothing wrong with that. But there is also the opposite side: by having no worries about system limitations, memory limits, I can concentrate only on the problem I'm solving. When I HAVE to program, not for fun, but for work, and deliver the result fast, I'd prefer a language like Java, that abstracts the system's limitations.

But before you say that I'm not a real programmer, let me clarify: I also like low level languages. But an 8 bit machine just seems a little too low level for me ;o)