I am a 52-year-old programmer. I have been a project manager and a team manager but I prefer creating things rather than keeping up with management whims. I'm good at what I do because I have experience in many languages (beginning with FORTRAN) and I can easily adapt my skills to the next "best" choice. Luckily, my last job change allowed me to revert to programming with very little loss in salary. I am valuable to my company because of my variety of languages. I program in VB6, VBA and/or VB.Net every day but I could easily switch back to Java or C# in a heartbeat. The author's article (full version) looks very professional in print but is so full of word-errors (words that pass the spell-checker but are used improperly, starting with "being" instead of "begin") that eventually I gave up on thinking him credible. P.M.