Hacking is easy and doesn't take a very sharp mind. Computer science research is harder. Math research is harder, still. There are plenty of people well pas

Hacking is easy and doesn't take a very sharp mind. Computer science research is harder. Math research is harder, still. There are plenty of people well past 50 and, from their research publications, still quite productive. For them, hacking is baby talk. Richard Wagner? Late in his life he finished his four opera 'The Ring' and wrote 'Parsifal'. All that work remains crown jewels of all of music and art. People late in life are less likely to do hacking for a variety of reasons, but that their mental capacity is not up to the challenge is not among the reasons. What's so difficult about allocate-free, if-then-else, do-while, call-return, try-catch, etc.? Trivial.