When are you too old to be a programmer?
As an old guy, my perspective is skewed. That’s OK; all of our perspectives on all issues are skewed by who we are. But is there an answer that ‘makes sense’?
According to a new study, older people might actually make better programmers than younger ones. This is a seismic shift in the way the topic has long been discussed, and in conflict with something I asked about a few years ago; might older people be too set in their ways to use SmartPhones?
Truer words that you see above have never been spoken.
Ever since the days when I was The Computer Answer Guy, I’ve lived in a world filled with both end users and programmers. I’ve made it my challenge to bridge those worlds for decades now, which is why I find questions like “Where’s My Any Key?” so funny . . . and so real.
It gives me a unique perspective. When programmers back in the day talked about “spaghetti code” (programming code that’s so redundant and undocumented that it becomes impossible to maintain), I understood it in a way that most non-programmers or not-quite-a-programmers just can’t get a handle on.
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