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This is like me taking my son hunting, holding the gun for him and having him pull the trigger for the kill.

His mentor was Koichi Sasada...he wrote YARV!

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great to get kids involved. But it's not like he walked in off the street, "saw the matrix" and then committed a patch.

I can already sense the razzing coming from the Python camp! :)

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Can you somehow prove that Koichi made the solution SOOO obvious that even a teenager could have made the fix?

From what little I've read, it seems to me that this kid is pretty smart and has made a very generous contribution to the Ruby community.

I would have been plenty impressed if the article was framed like that, without the hype. As you say, the kid has made a great contribution at a young age. No need to dress up a good thing.

> I can already sense the razzing coming from the Python camp! :)

We've got no need, the CPython release manager is a high school student (he's also a core committer on both CPython and PyPy) :)

Whew! :)

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