Beeing a developer after 40

[RM]

I feel refreshingly young at 54, and having done my first programming in 
1975, and seen my first computer that I could actually
program directly (rather than by punching holes in cards) in 1976.

Good on you chaps.

Richmond.

On 30.04.2016 19:55, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Keep going Francis! You beat me to your first digital computer - I had to wait until 1961! Still, I more or less fulfill your points 1 to 4.
>
> I loved programming and software design, and recycled myself after retirement so as to get some of the magic back. LiveCode (and its predecessors) seemed the obvious way to go…
>
> I am also not the oldest programmer/developer in the world, but I’m just a **bit** older than you…
>
> Graham
>
>> On 29 Apr 2016, at 19:51, Francis Nugent Dixon <effendi at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
>>
>> It all depends on what you mean by "developer" :
>>
>> 1 - You write apps for your own use ?
>> 2 - You sell your apps for money, or give them away to anyone who wants them ?
>> 3 - You spent several years with a software house developing for them ?
>> 4 - You create apps because you love turning problems into apps ?
>> 5 - Your computer runs Window 3, and you don't use it any more
>>      (but you did live some "developer "days !)
>>
>> For me, all but no. 5 are true ! I write apps (now using liveCode) every day,
>> 'cos I always find a new reason that I didn't have yesterday.
>> I wrote my first program (just curious) on an ICL computer at
>> Liverpool University, in 1959 (or was it 1960 ?) My buddy ran it for me.
>> My first real computer was an IBM 1401 (early 60's), where I moved
>> from machine code through Assembler, to PL/1. Then I moved into
>> "Data Transmission" which kept me rather busy until I retired.
>> Then I started writing apps in earnest (on a daily basis, but for myself).
>> I've been writing (mostly) for fun since then.
>>
>> I am certainly not the oldest programmer/developer in the world,
>> but I do my bit. I'm hitting 74 ..........
>>
>> -Francis
>>
>> "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"
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