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26-Sep-23 22:07

Damn it, just saw that I am longer member at Codeproject than some of my work colleagues are alive. Big Grin | :-D

Does that make me feel old? Nope. Am having fun with that.

How many are members here since 20+ years and still active?

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pkfox26-Sep-23 22:32

pkfox

26-Sep-23 22:32

A mere 16 years 7 months for me Smile | :)

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OriginalGriff26-Sep-23 22:34

OriginalGriff

26-Sep-23 22:34

14 years here - but it doesn't feel like it at all! Doesn't time fly when you are having fun? Big Grin | :-D

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Richard MacCutchan26-Sep-23 22:47

Richard MacCutchan

26-Sep-23 22:47

I will hit 20* years this December. I first discovered CodeProject at work and it certainly helped with many issues that I worked on back then.

*I had been using it for a few years before I created an account.

Andreas Saurwein26-Sep-23 23:01

26-Sep-23 23:01

Definitely, although in the last few years it feels somehow overwhelming. So many new areas and technologies added. Stuff that one only hears about but never uses.

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Richard MacCutchan26-Sep-23 23:14

Richard MacCutchan

26-Sep-23 23:14

Agree, I look at some stuff now and it doesn't make much sense to me. I remember spending a weekend learning C from K&R, so I could start a new project the following week. Now it takes me as long as I spent on that project to learn any new language (or even some features).

honey the codewitch27-Sep-23 0:34

27-Sep-23 0:34

Since I started heavily back into C++, moving from C# as a primary I've been so lost in learning the nooks and crannies that I don't have time for other languages.

The blessing and curse of C++ is that it takes more than a single lifetime to master.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Richard MacCutchan27-Sep-23 0:40

Richard MacCutchan

27-Sep-23 0:40

honey the codewitch wrote:
The blessing and curse of C++ is that it takes more than a single lifetime to master.

Mainly because they keep "improving" it. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

honey the codewitch27-Sep-23 1:05

27-Sep-23 1:05

Haha, i think even with just C++17 you're looking at more than a lifetime.

The problem is not in mastery of the syntax and core functionality, but in how to apply it. There is so much magic in the application of C++ fundamentals to do amazing things that there are rabbit holes everywhere. It sometimes seems endless. template alone contains worlds.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Graeme_Grant26-Sep-23 23:05

Graeme_Grant

26-Sep-23 23:05

19 years, 1 month ...

Graeme

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Daniel Pfeffer27-Sep-23 0:07

Daniel Pfeffer

27-Sep-23 0:07

20 years this November.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

honey the codewitch27-Sep-23 0:15

27-Sep-23 0:15

I think I may have been? But I lost my original account at some point I think during a codeproject upgrade, or maybe I just locked myself out of it.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Andreas Saurwein27-Sep-23 0:25

27-Sep-23 0:25

Nahhh, never. You are not even that old yet. Laugh | :laugh:

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honey the codewitch27-Sep-23 0:30

27-Sep-23 0:30

I've been coding since 1986. Offa my lawn. Laugh | :laugh:

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Andreas Saurwein27-Sep-23 0:53

27-Sep-23 0:53

Welcome to the 80's club then

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StarNamer@work27-Sep-23 13:20

StarNamer@work

27-Sep-23 13:20

Is there a 70's club? I started in 1974 at University but went professions in 1986, so I suppose I'm an 80's club member! Smile | :)

Andreas Mertens27-Sep-23 1:37

Andreas Mertens

27-Sep-23 1:37

My first "professional" gig, was when I was 15 years old in '78. Programming some office utilities in UCSD Pascal. So 45 years since then.

But I started programming personally much before then. I think I first started learning all this when I was 10, and actually got to play with a friends TRS-80 a few years later.

In that time, Ive got work with so many types of software - embedded video software, modding system Bios software, a the way through to major web sites, enterprise and gov't systems.

Its been a wild ride 😉

fd975027-Sep-23 2:37

fd9750

27-Sep-23 2:37

Professional coding: equally since 1986. Hobby since 1980 and I am still doing it. Something about it must be fun. Smile | :)

Daniel Pfeffer27-Sep-23 6:01

Daniel Pfeffer

27-Sep-23 6:01

I've been coding professionally since 1981, as a hobby since 1978.

As someone else said, it's been a wild ride.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Roger Wright27-Sep-23 6:58

Roger Wright

27-Sep-23 6:58

The last time I made a living by coding was before 1986. Laugh | :laugh:

Will Rogers never met me.

honey the codewitch27-Sep-23 6:59

27-Sep-23 6:59

*backs gingerly off of your lawn*

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Nelek27-Sep-23 8:57

Nelek

27-Sep-23 8:57

I made my first DOS programming with the Spectrum 128k in the 80es as a kid and helped my oldest brother (in college) to install and get started with win 3.11 at the age of 11. Got my own Pentium II with 150 MHz some time later but I really started (seriously) programming around the 2000s with C, then Borland C++, PALs, PICs, Telemechanique Grafcets (which I liked a lot), VC++ 6... then I changed to industry PLCs (I really liked the Grafcets Smile | :)

) missing the introduction of c# and .Net Framework and many other things afterwards. When I left PLCs as main field I got like OMG | :OMG:

what's all that? And I came back to my CP account to get up to date again... never left after that.

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Alister Morton28-Sep-23 23:04

Alister Morton

28-Sep-23 23:04

I think I've been on here about 13 years - not sure where to check.

Really only been writing software for a living since the late 80's but started coding at school on a time share computer in about '74. Bit of dabbling with 8080 and Z80 micros during the late 70's/early 80's

Nelek29-Sep-23 8:29

Nelek

29-Sep-23 8:29

Alister Morton wrote:
I think I've been on here about 13 years - not sure where to check.

13 Years and 8 Months. (Check in your profile under the reputation below your profile picture)

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