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Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders by PorterDuff on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:39PM (#19344120)
From the get off my lawn crowd (60) I don't mind being pushed out mostly because the work doesn't look that interesting at this point. I managed for 38 years with nothing in the way of languages (C, C++ when it became available, a whole bunch of assembly languages for exotic processors) by modern standards. Most of the heavy lifting in the workstation and high end embedded world was algorithmic.

All they are is dust in the wind.

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Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders by souprock on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:01PM (#19344177)
That is great experience, particularly "a whole bunch of assembly languages for exotic processors". Here, a job listing for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284153

Within 10 years here I had encountered more than 10 different CPU architectures. I've lost count now, but it is probably at least a dozen. The same goes for OSes.

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