In my own professional field I must admit that I also look to others like a dino. They all think "he should be in management by now...".
I have less patience these days to use technologies that require a big brain estate for a miserable return. Never been a fan of learning surface knowledge either, memorizing stuff bores me to death. This is why documentation exists. Part of this is due to aging... in the good sense. A matter of resource optimization more than anything else. There is less time in front of me than behind :) This changes future perspectives a lot. I agree, not too many these days will ever reach this step, most will drop before hitting 40. Too bad thousands lines of code get written each year without any forward thinking about this issue. Some day we will have to recall 60+ years old programmers to maintain the Java code base like we have to do today with Cobol. Youngsters do not want to hear about this but it will become reality, they will maintain stuff rather that writing new code :) Oups... Luc > >> The average career length of a programmer is 8 years in the US (2003 > >> survey) and > >> the main reason invoked by those that left is their perceived lack of > >> productivity. > > > >TL;DR: Opinions about unproductive older programmers is ahead of the > >science. > > I've been programming every day for 42 years, in over 60 languages, four > of which I helped author. > > When interviewing for jobs I find that I have experience in all of the > technologies (e.g. I've been using Java since it was called "Oak", > written a game for Andriod, and I'm writing a book on Clojure). However > I find that I get interviewed by 20-somethings who have never done a job > intervew and haven't even bothered to read my resume. > > Inevitably I get rejected because I'm "overqualified", which is > l33t speak for "old". Would you reject a builder, pilot, or lawyer > for being "overqualified" > > If you don't believe me, next time you watch a talk, say at Google, > you'll find that when they pan the camera around the room there are > no grey-haired people in the audience. > > As for being "unproductive", I have averaged 4+ files changed per day > over the last 12 years in my open source project. > There is a myth that programming is a young person's game. > > I must say that I have noticed one real decline over the years. > I have much less patience for programmers who never heard of Knuth. > That's like a physicist who never heard of Newton. > > Tim Daly > Curmudgeon at large > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Softaddicts<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail from my ipad! -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
