Name: Anonymous 2010-03-11 11:28
We should NOT be allowing young children access to Turing-complete (aka general recursive) programming languages. First of all Alan Turing was an active homosexual, His satanic influence is what corrupts perfectly good intelligent young kids and turns them into hackers. Time and time again we see these kids with so much potential being sucked into the internet and getting taught how to hack into government websites, when they get caught that's their bright future down the toilet. Secondly the Church-Turing thesis states that Turing-complete programming is The most powerful computational class would you let your children play with nuclear bombs? rocket launchers? no! These programming languages are such intensely powerful and dangerous tools that it is just irresponsible to let anyone near them without proper qualifications. I'm writing up a proposal to ban anyone without a liscence from using Turing-complete programming languages, things like iPhone and iPad are a step in the right direction. This would put an abrupt stop to cybercrime, phishing and all malicious hacking. I know it's not going to be easy, a lot of people (especially you lot in /prog/) have gotten used to these mind amplifications tools but I urge you to put them down. We have to stop programming and start thinking about the future.. do you really want to live in a world where your child might get turned into a cyber criminal, and cause WWIII?