&gt; That simply isn&#x27;t true.<p>Nu-huh!<p>C&#x27;mon. Is this what HN has come to?<p>Look, I&#x27;m made an observation: put a kid in a room with three objects, 2 computers and 1 book, and in only one combination <i>does he in fact learn python!</i> He knows the terminal is on the iMac. I know he knows, because he knows how to ssh to another server to launch our Minecraft server. I&#x27;ve shown him python is there. But he doesn&#x27;t use it.<p>He frankly seems quite proud of his &quot;hacker laptop&quot; that boots to console. He logs in, starts X, and gets a full-screen xterm running tmux. It even has an antenna sticking out. He thinks it&#x27;s cool.<p>Fine. Whatever floats his boat.<p>But, seriously, if you&#x27;re writing code, you are quite literally not doing any of the other things that you could be doing with that computer. E.g., browsing the internet, writing a document, drawing, etc, etc.<p>It&#x27;s like saying &quot;When I&#x27;m writing with this pencil, I&#x27;m not doing any of the other things I could be doing with this pencil.&quot; E.g., throwing it in the air, braking it in half, pulling the eraser out, sharpening it, whittling it down with a knife, splitting the wood to get the whole lead out, etc, etc.<p>I&#x27;m just stating a fact. There&#x27;s no argument to be made there. If you want an argument, there are other things to argue about.