whats the average age of programmers on here

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55 years young!


IT IS ALL ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY/RISK. To quote an old saying "It is hard to
remember that you are there to
drain the swamp when you are up to your ass in aligators!".
I prefer to get my projects done on time and deliver results with the least
amount of
aggravation and pain(read aligators!) . Having been in the IT industry for
over 35 years and been through
4 generations of technology, I am not particularly interested in beating out
my brains on cobbled together technologies like the Java/J2EE/Linux camp
and prefer to minimize the aligators -- time is too precious. Been there
.... done that when I was young and inexperienced! .Net is relatively new yet
old as Microsoft seems to have taken many of the proven concepts from the
Java world and
applied it to .NET. Java as a language is fine ...
C# (which I like alot) could be its twin.
..Net is the natural
migration for anyone skilled in the Microsoft world ( MS has been around for
20 years).
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As an Object-Oriented software consultant, I had seriously considered Java
in its time,
and had done a few projects. It has been my experience that I can get more
OO development productivity by using the Microsoft/.Net product line.

Finally, I think that the reason ther are more older .NET developers is that
good OOA/D skills (necessary for .Net), like wine,
is something that improves with age!

regards,

Super Fan said:
Why are .net programmers so /old/ anyway ?
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And put me down for 52 as of a few days ago. Just getting started. I've been
doing java with a tiny smattering of visual studio/c++ for the past 10 yrs
or so. Currently working on a commercial C# .net web project.

KAC

JD said:
Jon Skeet said:
I'm intrigued as to how you come to that conclusion, when only two
replies have suggested an age of over 50, and plenty have been
significantly under.

The average of the exact numbers given so far (i.e. not counting Cor
and JD, who haven't given actual ages) is just under 38, which I hardly
think is particularly old. It's only about half way through a normal
professional life.
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Ok, in the name of statistical accuracy, you can mark me down as 62. And I
figure that it's about half way through a normal
professional life. 8-)

JD
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In only 17 and im using .net but ive only just started iv got a copy of
Visual Studio .net 2002 Professional with the J# Upgrade
 
Obviously Older Developers saw the dawn of Java when they were too deep sunk
in the sand of C++ so they thought it wise, not to become a "rolling stone"
or "worshiper of every new rising sun". Switching career at these ages are
like going back to zero (Please dont pick this line literally. Though
Java/.NET are similar, switcj=hing language opens a whole new arena of
hardware/IDEs/Customers/Psychlogy/Relations/Salaries and you keep on adding)

Muhammad Imran
Islamabad, Pakistan
Age 24
Professional Softwrae Developer since age of 19.
Languages: VisualFoxpro, VB6/.NET, J2SE, OracleDeveloper, ASP3
 
Can we call programmers OLD if they are old enough to remember when we had
to consider if the program was too large to fit into memory and still leave
room for some data! (not to say small enough to fit on a floppy)
....joisey
 
Three, naturally. One to write the instructions in C#. One to pass the
message
to COM. One to actually screw in the lightbulb.

Regards,
Jeff
How many old .com programmers Does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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:)<
 
I still remember when I learnt ASM for the first time. It was fun...
I'm 31, does that mean I am old?
 
Stefan Constantin - Romania
19 years here

Muhammad Imran said:
Obviously Older Developers saw the dawn of Java when they were too deep sunk
in the sand of C++ so they thought it wise, not to become a "rolling stone"
or "worshiper of every new rising sun". Switching career at these ages are
like going back to zero (Please dont pick this line literally. Though
Java/.NET are similar, switcj=hing language opens a whole new arena of
hardware/IDEs/Customers/Psychlogy/Relations/Salaries and you keep on adding)

Muhammad Imran
Islamabad, Pakistan
Age 24
Professional Softwrae Developer since age of 19.
Languages: VisualFoxpro, VB6/.NET, J2SE, OracleDeveloper, ASP3
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because with age come wisdom, young grasshopper

Super Fan said:
No, what I mean is that the average age of .net programmers is like 50.

Which makes me think that all the younger programmers use java, and .net
is just a way for old COM c++ programmers to do java.
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Muhammad Imran said:
Obviously Older Developers saw the dawn of Java when they were too deep
sunk
in the sand of C++ so they thought it wise, not to become a "rolling
stone"
or "worshiper of every new rising sun". Switching career at these ages are
like going back to zero (Please dont pick this line literally. Though
Java/.NET are similar, switcj=hing language opens a whole new arena of
hardware/IDEs/Customers/Psychlogy/Relations/Salaries and you keep on
adding)
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Dunno if I classify as an old programmer, but the main reason I avoided Java
was due to some bad early experiences with it. The reason I switched to .NET
was because of some fantastic early experiences with it. It had nothing to
do with career, and everything to do with a passion and interest for the
technology. And, BTW, it was nothing like going back to zero. The concepts
are easy to grasp. Honestly the most difficult part was learning the class
libraries. Switching languages is easy.
 
Just following the disscution....
Thequestion was what's the avarage age for (.net) developers)... we don't
know... we sure know our own age.
And an average in dontnet is just as good as an avarege in any programming
language (theoreticaly)
I woul guess young developers are atracted to dot.net because it's talked
about a lot .. just as good as java (and a few others) ... once you do get
yout programming skills up a little I guess you really start experimenting .
Then you go to another forum and ask what's the average age for Python
developers for example.

I just realized that this post might propagate the idea that .NET is for
young developers .. that is not what I want it to say .
I admit it might be stupid .. I'm sorry for my english .. It's just anoher
post
Thank you
 
2^6
Started on punched card on Univac 1103 vacuum tubes.
There: three phrases anyone over 2^5 doesn't know: punched card, Univac,
vacuum tubes!
Changing idioms keeps the brain young!
 
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