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LOL, 55 years old is nearly dead? Ha! Knuth is 85 and still active. Kernighan is 81, likewise. Torvalds is 53 and he's just starting to mellow out and grow up
by fargle 4y ago
LOL, 55 years old is nearly dead? Ha!
Knuth is 85 and still active. Kernighan is 81, likewise.
Torvalds is 53 and he's just starting to mellow out and grow up (a little, not too much).
Anyone can get hit by a bus at any age. So the age at which you stop being productive or kick it is highly individualize. I don't know Theo Ts'o, but I have no evidence of his eminent demise.
- viraptor 4y agoI'm not saying that 55 is nearly dead. But 55-65 is the range when the death rate starts to really increase https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age-and-sex-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age... 66 is also the retirement age and while some people want to keep doing what they're doing forever, others may prefer to move into a log cabin away from civilisation. So there's a good chance he'll be around, able, and dealing with the 2038 changes, but also a reasonable change that he won't want to / be able to.