Beeing a developer after 40

[Graham Samuel]

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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