Comment I respectfully disagree (Score 2, Interesting) 308
I disagree because the first computers I used when I was twelve, thirteen, etc, were an HP 3000 (at school -- time share accounts) amd an altos minicomputer, running CP/M.
What they shared, and the basis for my premise, were multi-user, multi-tasking command-line environments that demanded verbal agility and procedural thinking (here, I am *NOT* using procedural as the antonym of object-oriented; I am simply using it in a methodical, incremental context). Both paved the way for my comfort with linux a decade and a half later and predisposed me to prefer *nix operating systems.
It would be a logical fallacy for me to presume my experience and choices would be universal, or that one's childhood OS predetermines one's adult usage, but I think it's fair to say that what one learns at an impressionable age could REASONABLY presage one's choices of computing environment as an adult.
What they shared, and the basis for my premise, were multi-user, multi-tasking command-line environments that demanded verbal agility and procedural thinking (here, I am *NOT* using procedural as the antonym of object-oriented; I am simply using it in a methodical, incremental context). Both paved the way for my comfort with linux a decade and a half later and predisposed me to prefer *nix operating systems.
It would be a logical fallacy for me to presume my experience and choices would be universal, or that one's childhood OS predetermines one's adult usage, but I think it's fair to say that what one learns at an impressionable age could REASONABLY presage one's choices of computing environment as an adult.
