Now that's a REAL programmer

Behold the might of Visual Basic:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Jexah247

Look at his web browser! Holy shit!

He said in a comment, and I quote:
"I'm 13 as well, I'm starting on some C++ for hacking games now, I can get good 'street cred.' and become the most well known 'Admin Annoyance' at school too, I'm currently working on a way to get stuff on the school computers, easy with VB6, but I'm trying VB 2008, 'cause if a can find a way, I'm sure people will be gullible enough to buy it LOL!"

Seriously, and I have experienced that myself, VB is a terrible waste of time.

When I was 8 aprox., i used to spend a lot of time writing failing projects in visual basic. Most were left abandoned, but I used to spend a lot of time reading the documentation, trying to find interesting stuff. Everything had strange ways to do things, (on error resume next, dim. even malloc is nicer, damn!) so the most ambituous (and last) thing i tried to write, a simple game, failed terribly ("oh wow, i can duplicate controls with a "new"... but i have to set the index property... call the show method after creating each... and handle nonsensical errors", and so on)

When i was 12 i got intarwebs, and googled "how to become a hacker". Now, three years later, i'm on linux, coding with forced indentation¹, criticising the beautifulness of other people's code.

And I really feel that I lost valuable years of real hacking...

¹random stuff with gtk, mostly