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Been programming for 49 years - 44 as paid work; still going, retirement will happen when I find something I enjoy more than problem solving/programming. Start
by earleybird 4y ago
Been programming for 49 years - 44 as paid work; still going, retirement will happen when I find something I enjoy more than problem solving/programming.
Started with Focal (PDP-8/I), Dartmouth Basic, Fortran (using my dad's account at the local uni) - in that order. Subsequently learnt Cobol (for work) & Lisp (out of interest) at about the same time. Shortly after going through the LispKit lisp implementation I realized I could implement lisp in pretty much any language I had at hand (often not well but still functional). At various times work has been more design & architecture but there's always a programming part to it.
- Aeolun 4y ago> retirement will happen when I find something I enjoy more than problem solving/programming After 49 years, do you actually see that happening? Or is it more of a ‘when pigs fly’ situation.
- earleybird 4y agoIt may happen some time, more likely when the problems being solved are less interesting than the hobby programming. But I'll be programming either way. :-)