> I'm 35, started programming at about 10 in my TI99-4A, typing games from magazines, etc. the usual stuff. > No way a 40 year old guy have more experience tha

> I'm 35, started programming at about 10 in my TI99-4A, typing games from magazines, etc. the usual stuff. > No way a 40 year old guy have more experience than me in general programming, unless he was working at Microsoft or IBM at that date, and surely they are about less than 10000 of those guys in the world. You're talking about 1989, right? In 1983, there were 443,000 computer programmers and 276,000 "Computer systems analysts, scientists" in the United States alone (source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2/gen/96statab/labor.pdf http://www.census.gov/prod/2/gen/96statab/labor.pdf).