Most of the best programmers I know are old and learned to program on machines that now seem horrible. Maybe that's why they're good. It's na area where accumu

Most of the best programmers I know are old and learned to program on machines that now seem horrible. Maybe that's why they're good. It's na area where accumulated experience and technical knowledge matter a lot. Practice dominates over theory but you have to understand some nontrivial things too. All that favors older programmers.