Do you have any more valuable work to do with the sun getting older?

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The older the programmer, the better.

At home, it does not seem to see a lot of old programmers like abroad, this may be the domestic software industry is not very developed reasons. However, in Europe and the United States and other software powers can be found, old programmers can also glow new youth. StackOverflow through software developers who have a reputation value of more than 100: the older the programmers, the higher their StackOverflow reputation value. Perhaps the ginger is still the old spicy ...
A great misunderstanding of older programmers

At home, we always have some misunderstandings about older program apes. Misconception 1 Older programmers are more expensive than young program apes, and young developers are preferable

Yes, older programmers have a higher salary than the young programmers ask for. But have you ever thought about what it would take for them to get such a high salary? For experienced programmers, you are actually hiring them to gain experience in previously unsuccessful or successful projects. On the contrary, if you hire a novice who has no experience, then the price is expensive. Moreover, as far as I know, the young developers are more impetuous, and their salary is often more than their own value. So, it's not fair to pay for the old monkey program. Misunderstanding 2 older programmers lack flexibility, lack of ability to learn new knowledge

On the contrary, due to their experience, the more experienced programmers are able to migrate to new technologies, frameworks and systems more quickly and in depth. For example, if you have studied the GUI framework of C/s + +, your mind will have mastered the concepts of message transmission, event handling, and the MVC pattern uses these concepts to design the system, separating the presentation layer and the backend business processing. When you first learn a GUI framework, you have to learn these conceptual things in addition to learning the grammar, the examples, and the common class libraries. After learning two or three or more GUI frameworks, you'll find that the frameworks are very similar except for syntax. You will also find that after the advent of the framework has overcome many of the unique limitations of predecessors, no longer need you to spend time developing complex hack programs. These insights are not something that new people can have. Misconception 3 Older programmers are not as flexible as the brains of young programmers

Age growth does affect people's brainpower, and older workers do have a slower response than younger ones. But thinking agile is just one aspect of our comparison. It's not always good to think fast. There is an old saying: "The right judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from wrong judgments." "These old programmers have seen and experienced a lot more successful and unsuccessful cases than they were young, which shows that rejecting older programmers on the pretext of thinking about speed degradation is unconvincing," he said. Misconception 4 Older programmers are tired and picky about their work, and less motivated than young people

Enthusiasm seems to be about people, not age. If it's age, then how to explain Donald Knuth, Ward Cunningham, Bill Joy, Bill Gates and hundreds of thousands of people crossing the 40-year-old threshold have not lost any enthusiasm for the field. If you really love this industry, even if you have twilight this passion will not disappear. Where are the old programmers in China?

At home, there seems to be a potential rule that if you are over 35 years old and still writing code on the line that will be despised. So, what are these old programs doing?
At present, the domestic old programmers mainly have three roads: one is a career change, the second is to continue to study as a technical expert, the third is to transform into managers. And these few roads, the program ape all left a gleam of development. But I think: if all the technology is thinking to do management, not down-to-earth writing code, the technology will not be done. The older the programmer the better, what do you think.

1, the older the programmer the better, what do you think.
2, in your eyes how large the program ape is the old programmer, how do you think.
3, the old programmer to want to not be eliminated by the times, what should be done.
4, the program Ape career change is easy, can go to which industry.

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