I want to say thank you for all the "youngsters'" posts. As someone who been in the industry for over four decades, I do get lost in some of the newfangled things. Turns out, most of the time it is a language change, not a dramatic world-view change.

Of the three points of the article, the last two (10 years major shift, ; shift creates leveling playing field) I disagree with.

I have seen some things that felt like major shifts, but once under the hood, they tend to be re-shaping and combining existing technologies. This often put me ahead of new-comers. I had not only the current technology, but I also understood the underlying historical technology.

There is no such thing as "irrelevant experience" in my opinion. For example - it is unlikely that Algol, SNOBOL or Fortan will make a new revival. But, all that experience gave me the edge to be able to recognize short-comings or advantages of newer programming languages.

So thanks for all the nice words here. It's time for me to swap my tapes in my PDP.