>It is disheartening that they lack the respect they should have socially independent of profession for an "elder" person. Especially when you consider the fac

>It is disheartening that they lack the respect they should have socially independent of profession for an "elder" person. Especially when you consider the fact that the tools and concepts they've learned and made them super awesome were developed by people in their late 30s-50s. James Gosling was 40 when he came out with Java, Bjarne and Guido were both 35 when they came out with C++ and Python respectively. None of these guys, by the way, have stopped working.