@eloy Linux on Scratch would beg to differ

https://web.archive.org/web/20231201021114/https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/892602496/

@jn @eloy

Some guys at MIT in 2003: “Let's make a visual programming language just for kids to learn how computers work. It won't be for anything serious. We'll call it Scratch.”

Kids using Scratch: “Hold my registers.”

@eloy

Indeed. Adults never cease to underestimate the cleverness and persistence of children, especially tweens and teens.

For example, I once heard of a video game for kids. Kids were not allowed to talk to each other, but they were allowed to place furniture in the game world. So what did they do? They encoded messages in the arrangement of the furniture.

They *encoded messages* in the *arrangement of the furniture*.

You will be outwitted. Resistance is futile.

@jn