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Thank you for your comment. I would like to add that not everybody at IBM is like that just to prevent HN from forming the wrong image. Since client/server ha
by filereaper 13y ago
Thank you for your comment.
I would like to add that not everybody at IBM is like that just to prevent HN from forming the wrong image.
Since client/server has been around the 60's from System 360 its hard to find a grey-beard who isn't familiar with the concept.
Although the grey-beards may not know the new upcoming frameworks such as node.js et al... they're worth every penny when it comes to design and architecture of large software systems, its usually the foresight of what will work and fail which matters the most.
Many wisened gray-beards still code everyday but they do approach us wet-behind-the-ears on simple day-to-day details.
- hga 13y ago"Since client/server has been around the 60's from System 360...." Eh??? What was the client to the 360's server? (Then again I never actually did IBM mainframe programming at that level.)
- michaelochurch 13y agoI tend to think there's an XKCD 385 (http://xkcd.com/385/ http://xkcd.com/385/) thing going on with this idea that older programmers are more resistant to change or somehow inferior. There are plenty of young programmers who can't/won't learn anything except what they were explicitly taught, have a shitty attitude, and generally fight anything different from what they're comfortable with... but it's never attributed to their age. Anti-intellectualism is a problem all throughout the software world. It may be that a certain late-career decline is one symptom of it, but I've seen it manifest just as badly in young people.