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Programming is hard. It is competitive. The programming languages change every 2 yrs. 61 yr old programmers who have programmed much of their careers. Find

Programming is hard. It is competitive. The programming languages change every 2 yrs. 61 yr old programmers who have programmed much of their careers. Find ageism and irrelevancy if they have not kept up with the changing technologies. Your father is choosing a harder path. That may not be worth the time, effort and energy. And starting with no relevant skills to programming. Some better options with competitive pay: documentation, report writing, database management, QA.

breckenedge 5y ago
> The programming languages change every 2 yrs. Is this your experience or are you quoting something? I’ve been programming professionally in the same language for a decade. Certainly I’ve worked off and on with others, but if you’re changing that rapidly, how deep of an expertise can you achieve?
unmole 5y ago
> The programming languages change every 2 yrs. And here I am getting paid to write C. It's been around since *checks notes* 1972.
- b20000 5y ago
  this. avoid learning fad languages. out of curiosity what kind of software are you writing in C?
  - unmole 5y ago
    Network protocols, kernel modules, proxies and filesystems. To be fair parts of them were written in C++, Go and even Python.