How does it make the OP less relevant? i know pretty smart programmers that are still in high school. And tt doesnt matter, the guy obviously knows Go.
My implication was that the article was very professional and I was quite impressed that it was written by somebody so young. I think that it makes it more relevant, not less.
Wow, "writing lots of compilers and type checkers" definitely wasn't on my radar screen when I was in high school.
I did an informatics technical degree on high school back in the early 90's in Portugal.
We had introduction to parsing and basic language processing.
Me neither, but a classmate was reading over/working through the dragon book our senior year of high school. There's a reason he went to CMU and I didn't. On the other hand, compilers (well, a less than formal version) was the third CS course topic at GT. Definitely approachable, with good faculty/staff, as an early topic of study.
I was reading Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" txt file. Good memories :)
That's pretty remarkable, actually. I see he's going to CMU in the fall, which is a win for CMU. He's obviously a smart dude.
Why do you feel this is worth pointing out?
I think that it is very impressive that he is having these thoughts at such a young age. That's it, I wasn't saying that his opinion should be discredited!
Yeah, indeed. I think with the flak this article is taking elsewhere in the comments people might be reading this as an argument against him. I know that was my first impression, glad I asked for clarification.