[dba-Tech] Old programmers

Suitable for framing. :-)

Jim

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Beautiful!
T

Tina Norris Fields
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On 5/27/2012 2:35 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> I saw this article and decided to post it in it entirety. As an mature
> programmer I made similar decisions many years ago and understand where
this
> youngster is coming from:
>
> " Old Farts Know How to Code
>
> I turned 45 this month. In many professions that's the prime age to be -
and
> in others it's considered young -  but in my line of work, some people
think
> middle-aged coders are old farts. That's especially true when it comes to
> startups.
>
> The startup culture is similar to professional sports in that it requires
a
> fleet of fresh-out-of-college kids to trade their lives and their health
for
> the potential of short-term glory.
>
> "Old farts" are often excluded from that culture, not because we're lousy
> coders but because we won't put up with that shit. We have lives, we have
> families, we have other things that are important to us. We're not about
to
> sleep at our desks and trade watching our kids grow up for the promise of
> striking it rich. Especially when the people who really strike it rich
> aren't the ones writing code.
>
> So many developers my age have had plenty of chances to ditch coding and
> move into management, but we've stuck with coding because it's what we
love
> to do. We'd earn more in management, but writing software is in our blood.
> We wouldn't stop doing it for anything.
>
> And because of the years we've spent creating software, we've learned what
> works and what doesn't, regardless of the language or the platform.
> Operating systems rise and fall, development tools come and go, but
through
> it all, old farts know how to write solid code. "
>
> Jim
>
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