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I'm 41 and I still don't feel old even though I work with a few people who are 10-15 younger than me. We tend to think of old programmers as these ancient neck
by dvirsky 10y ago
I'm 41 and I still don't feel old even though I work with a few people who are 10-15 younger than me.
We tend to think of old programmers as these ancient neckbeards who write COBOL and FORTRAN and grew up on usenet programming PDP machines; but the reality is that 40+ year old programmers today were kids in the 90s, were in their 20s when languages like JS, Python and PHP became popular, and played quake 3 in their early twenties.
BTW I'm not doing straight-up programmer work, more of senior architect type roles in the past years, so it might be more "acceptable" in the industry to still be spending time with an IDE at my age in this context.