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Study Shows Programmers Get Better With Age

Posted by Soulskill on from the practice-makes-perfect dept.

mikejuk writes "It's a prejudice the young and old both share, but with opposite conclusions, of course. Young is best or old is best — most have an opinion. Now we have some interesting statistics ingeniously gathered and processed by Peter Knego, 'big data' style, that 'proves' older is better when it comes to programming, at least!"

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  1. Volume.. by hhr · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe that. The older programmers that I know have a better sence of what is neccessary, what works, and what doesn't need to be done. The young guys out code them by number of lines, the old coders write much more code that survies for years and doesn't need to be rewritten six monthes from now.

  2. But younger is cheaper! by SwedishChef · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Nuff said.

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  3. Re:Known this one for a long time... by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 3, Informative

    that's right, switches, routers, networking boxes and netmgt that goes along with that. it used to be a really fun time to be an engineer in that field, in the bay area. yes, we did get spoiled, I'll admit that. I *thought* it was working out well for the companies, too; they got a good employee base, locally; and we got good high tech big-name companies to work for.

    the short-term advantage of offshoring kind of ruined things, though. it didn't happen overnight but it did happen in about 10 years (give or take).

    we are destroying our local, older, middle class. we are. believe it.

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