[svat]

Don't miss the program he wrote after teaching himself BASIC from a book at age six (Fig 5 / book page 222 / PDF page 10):

> 320 print "(brmmmm-brmmmm-putt-putt-vraow-chatter-chatter bye mr. fibonacci!)"

[dfex]

That program listing hit me right in the feels.

I remember when I was 6 or 7 teaching myself Applesoft BASIC and writing programs with funny (to me) little print statements all through them - when computing was just exploding with possibility.

I wouldn't have had a clue what a Fibonacci sequence was though ;)

[nananana9]

This does feel like something a super smart alien pretending to be an 8 year old would write.

[whatshisface]

Sometimes I wonder if HNers have met more aliens than 8 year olds.

[aa-jv]

Found myself counting characters in case there was an easter egg in there. Spoiler: there isn't an easter egg in there.

[svat]

The whole program is an Easter egg :) “sorry, he wasn’t born yet! try again” vs “no, he is already in heaven, try again”, and that cute goodbye routine.