> current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination. How does that happen? I'm not even 30 and I remember when

> current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination. How does that happen? I'm not even 30 and I remember when IE6 was new. Does everyone burn out or move into management by 26 or what? Programming is really a weird field in that it seems to lose a lot of its workmen just as they start maturing into the experience level that yields a productive stride in other fields. I know some make the argument that programming is a young man's game due to the required mental acuity, but I don't really buy that. Perhaps as people get older, they become increasingly less interested in staring into the computer and seek more social forms of employment? We've got to be losing a huge amount of productivity by seeing experienced developers drop off the map before they hit 40.