> I remember when they put in their first lab of PCs, and how they started teaching folks Turbo Pascal on micro computers, and I just felt that the users were missing out on a bigger world.

I believe Alan Kay used to say the right perspective is worth 80 IQ points. We should always strive to broaden our experiences and horizons. We get a ton of wrong perspectives, but one perspective you acquired will be a perfect fit for that thing nobody else has the right experiences to figure out immediately.