I 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 chang

I 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.