Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Computer Programmers Might Get Better With Age

A new study from North Carolina State University shows that programmers actually improve with age.

“The older developers seemed to know more than the younger developers did,” says Emerson Murphy-Hill, co-author of the study. “That runs contrary to what the popular expectation is.”

Particularly traits like vocabulary, knowledge of history and life experience — skills key to programming — improve with time. But programming knowledge, too, can be maintained at a high level into a person’s 50s and 60s.


Of course, age discrimination in tech hiring is about more than skill: startups don’t just want savvy employees, but might prefer employees without families, outside responsibility, and high salary expectations.

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