{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Jon (primesonic)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-12 12:24:26 UTC","author_name":"Jon (primesonic)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/primesonic","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1021967","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/1948\" class=\"url\" title=\"Cerulean Spark\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">ceruleanspark<\/span><\/a><\/span> That's an interesting observation. Granted, I started learning about programming at age 12. At that time, I thought of programming languages as naturally as I thought of language itself: just a way to &quot;speak in a way the computer understood me&quot;.  Sure, these days I think a bit more about the algorithms and optimizations, data structures and object models, and so on and so forth, but in my initial steps it was a rather simple endeavor that came rather naturally."}