&#62; While its going to be hard to get any kind of interpreter on the device, I'm sure someone will succeed eventually - and then we could well have a generation of kids who grow up programming because of the device.<p>Yes, someone will eventually succeed.  There will be a jailbreak for this device which will turn it into a more interesting platform for students and technical users.<p>The complaint is that it should have been this way from the start, and we're betting on a flaw in Apple's design in order to get the most of their product.