Beeing a developer after 40

[Lyn Teyla]

Stephen Barncard wrote:

> obviously one hasn't been to a LC event lately.  More white hair and
> ponytails on old folks than an AES convention. The cool geeks club.

I’ve got nothing against younger or older people at all, but:

Whenever I come across photos of LiveCode events, and see white hair and baldness everywhere, it often makes me question my own sanity regarding my choice of programming language.

And then, I start questioning the sanity of younger people, who appear to _want_ to code using a non-English-like language, and multiple different languages at that, if deploying to different platforms.

Apparently, younger people, for some reason, don’t seem to want an English-like language (some even going as far as to avoid such languages as much as possible), or be able to use that same language to create desktop, mobile, server and web apps.

Should we be learning all sorts of non-English-like programming languages, just because everyone else is doing it, even though they’re less intuitive to use?

Does LiveCode Ltd have a sustainable business model given the apparent reality? Surely it can’t be reasoned away that young programmers don’t like going to events?

Am I mad? Has the world gone mad? Has common sense been thrown out the window?

/rant

Lyn