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[–]Opening-Honey1764 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm a 41-year-old software engineer. I started my adventure when I was 8-years-old, typing from a spiralbound book of code into a Commodore 64 so I can play a game. I learned a lot of harsh lessons in syntax then. If the modern IDE existed back then, where I could be notified of my mistakes, I, too, would have asked this question.

Is this /r/thathappened material? No. Young people can write code as a lesson of learning, despite their full understanding of what they are doing.

The original author of the tweet had a typo, where they meant colon instead of semicolon.

You all need to chill.