A friend of mine works for a government contractor software shop started by a nana in her later 60s. Except nana was an old-school Fortran programmer and knew h

A friend of mine works for a government contractor software shop started by a nana in her later 60s. Except nana was an old-school Fortran programmer and knew her way around Visual Studio. The cuteness wears off within an instant of hearing her speak: she is just another systems architect robbed of all innocence by decades of requirement analysis and systems integration. I also met another lady in her late 60s at George Mason university. We chatted up at the library checkout line, and I ended up getting lectured about mobile proof carrying code by someone in a christmas sweater, and bifocals left barely hanging on her nose. My 1337 credentials took a hit that day.