> much better programmer now than I was when I was young,
I don't think that's the angle the author was talking about.
He's actually saying this:
"By and large, programming (in terms in jobs/careers/economics) is a young man’s game"
The qualification I added in parentheses would be a fair reading based on his previous sentence: "...take a job as a software engineer."
Likewise, his 3 bullet points after the "young man's game" is about "jobs", not skill or intellect. Basically, it's about ageism in context of job slots.
Despite all the employment verbiage surrounding "young man", people are still misinterpreting it as:
"By and large, programming (in terms in intellectual ability) is a young man’s game"
Perhaps readers are too conditioned by the mathematician G.H. Hardy quote, "math is a young man's game"[1] in which he was talking about about intellectual output.
>> Perhaps readers are too conditioned by the mathematician G.H. Hardy quote, "math is a young man's game"[1] in which he was talking about about intellectual output.
Readers might just be conditioned to taking things at face value.
I don't think that's the angle the author was talking about.
He's actually saying this:
"By and large, programming (in terms in jobs/careers/economics) is a young man’s game"
The qualification I added in parentheses would be a fair reading based on his previous sentence: "...take a job as a software engineer."
Likewise, his 3 bullet points after the "young man's game" is about "jobs", not skill or intellect. Basically, it's about ageism in context of job slots.
Despite all the employment verbiage surrounding "young man", people are still misinterpreting it as:
"By and large, programming (in terms in intellectual ability) is a young man’s game"
Perhaps readers are too conditioned by the mathematician G.H. Hardy quote, "math is a young man's game"[1] in which he was talking about about intellectual output.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy#Hardy.27s_aphorisms