I am scraping my memory, trying to find an example of an older coder that I admire, and I can't find one. I think this is really unfortunate for me, because I k

I am scraping my memory, trying to find an example of an older coder that I admire, and I can't find one. I think this is really unfortunate for me, because I know they're out there. This is just an artefact of who you are and where you are in life - and nothing to worry about. How many people outside of your immediate age range do you know anyway? You're almost certainly like most people, who mostly know people kinda like themselves. If you're young you tend to hang with young folk. If you're a good developer you tend to find other good developers. Put both together and it's very easy to think that all good developers are young. Most of the really good developers I know are in their thirties and forties. That's because those are the people I hang out with coz I'm in my forties myself. As long as you realise that this is an artefact of who you know - rather than what the world is like - you'll be fine.