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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B by wglb on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @02:42AM (#650674)
Raising my hand. Been programming for 43 years, still going strong. Hopefully, I am done with C++, but who can tell.
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B by eru on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @10:13AM (#651021)
My grandfather was programming for a similar length of time before he retired. He made his last money maintaining mainframe assembler and Cobol programs, though. (He jokingly described himself as a classical philologist for computer languages.)
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B by wglb on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @11:31AM (#651135)
I remember job ads looking for mainframe programmers of many stripes to maintain vintage systems, as many cobol and assembly and jcl professionals had retired. There is still a lot of it out there.
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