OK, so my last post about five pervasive myths about older software developers was definitely getting a lot of:

Go old guys!

“Old guys! Old guys! Rah-rah-rah!”

in the comments.  And it wasn’t necessarily undeserved…after all, it was about debunking myths that have crept in as supposed truisms over the years.  But I left out a tiny little detail about something important.

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I recently celebrated my 40th birthday.  A friend joked to me, “Hey, guess that means you’re too old to program anymore!”  I laughed on the outside, but it gave me pause.  Age discrimination is nothing to laugh about in our field.  COBOL guys faced this problem years ago as Java guys like me were ascending the ranks, and we laughed heartily about legacy code and their inflexibility with new technology.

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