If you enjoy it, even if not your main job then it is something like gardening. A hobby even. With that aspect for many, current or past working programmers w

If you enjoy it, even if not your main job then it is something like gardening. A hobby even. With that aspect for many, current or past working programmers will often still dable once in a while long past this 50 year barrier being mooted as some kind of hurdle. Now funnily enough back in say the 60's/70's and early 80's being old and indeed 50 or over was not a issue for getting a programming job. Then in the late 80's and 90's things changed to the aspect when being old was in many area's deemed against you in some indirect filtering HR way. Now we are at a time which can and does judge people on the actual work they do in respect of programming. They can see or be shown examples of work and abilities and with that age is irrelavant if they be 13 or 113, its the results they can and have done for which they get the work. In that I would say programming has become alot easier to get your foot in the door of a company and also if your not as good easier to fall thru, nomatter age/gender or colour-spectrum-offset. Heck if a dog could do good code, it would be employed thesedays. So the real question is down to if you want and are able to program and with that age is irrelavant, the the ability to learn is priceless.