Most senior programmer in CP...

devenv exe

Bob. But did you intend to mean the oldest programmer here? as in years of existence on planet earth?

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AmitGajjar

Yeh.. "oldest programmer existence on planet earth" is perfect Title for this discussion.

Thanks -Amit Gajjar

devenv exe

my answer still stands. Its simply Bob :)

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BillWoodruff

For many of us here the experience of temporality is a flux orbiting levity whose apogee approaches timelessness, and whose perigee is senility. Of course, this is a fiction created by the four-billion years, or so, old practical joke of so-called "evolution," which formed the sorry bags of meat-over-bones in which we hallucinate, pretending what we are conscious of is ... reality. Fortunately, we now have another eternal moment of ordinary miraculous in which to be new, forever ... :) Happy New Year !

“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means: 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'” Vincent Van Gogh

AmitGajjar

:~

Thanks -Amit Gajjar

Septimus Hedgehog

I remember (with great fondness) those heady times in the mid-70s when you'd laboriously "type" your code on a deck of punched-cards wrapped in a piece of paper and an elastic band and put them on a counter and wait for them-thar computer operators to run them through the card reader. Sometimes, you'd try and strike a rapport with the operators in the hope your deck of cards would make it to the top of the stack. It was all so analogue then. I've been churning out shite code "professionally" since about 1978/79.

If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.

OriginalGriff

It's generally accepted that it's Henry Minute[^] who's coding career began with code punched into Stegosaurus fin plates, and executed using an array of uRaptor processors...

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

Sander Rossel

OriginalGriff wrote:

code punched into Stegosaurus fin plates

Was it a bug in his software that made them go extinct? :laugh:

It's an OO world.

public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

OriginalGriff

No, he doesn't write bugs. Possibly he uses so many of them they died out though... :laugh:

Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

Lost User

See http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx[^].

Veni, vidi, abiit domum

AmitGajjar

:confused:

Thanks -Amit Gajjar

Sampath Lokuge

Who is Bob ?:confused:

Nothing is Impossible for Willing Heart.

thatraja

:bob:

thatraja

Code converters | Education Needed No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute

thatraja

:confused:

thatraja

Code converters | Education Needed No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute

Lost User

Who is top of the list?

Veni, vidi, abiit domum

Marc Clifton

@AmitGajjar wrote:

say in programming from last 30 years or more...

I started programming in 7th grade, so that would have been when I was 12 or so. In August, that'll be 40 years. Marc

PIEBALDconsult

Marc Clifton wrote:

programming in 7th grade

But were you employed to do so?

PIEBALDconsult

Not me; my first programming job began in 1989 -- VAX BASIC on a MicroVAX 3600.

Espen Harlinn

Ron Beyer wrote:

Years of experience does not directly translate into skill

True, but then real software development, like many other walks of life, requires experience - as it's the only practical way to actually acquire the skills needed by the profession. So, while it's true that you can work in this profession and not really acquire more than a basic set of development skills - you cannot acquire a larger set of technological skills without getting your feet wet. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years[^]

Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra

Marc Clifton

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

But were you employed to do so?

Well, in 8th grade I was taught how to program in the boot code for the PDP-11, which would crash frequently when the mag drive drew too much power. So, you could say I was "employed" for a very important task. ;) Marc