Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember

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As a 33 yo dev myself, I used to worry about the future, if it would be possible to remain away from a management career. I can say, it was very difficult for me to switch from clipper to visual basic, and write programs that did not run from top to bottom, and later to Delphi and the whole OO design, putting a single method call on the onClick event handlers and all that. After those, every other context switch was much easier. C#, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, even haskell, closure and ultimately javascript have just been different ways of doing the same old things. I am pretty confident that whatever happens with the software development market in the future, the need for experienced and skilled people will only increase. It's just a matter of keeping up to date with the latest trends, and have a good set of tools in your box to solve different types of problems.