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Another poll should be, "What age group do you fall into"?
I would guess that most are over 50-55 years of age, at least the ones with 20+ years experience.
I am 49 with 16-17 years experience; started late.
I know a great deal of the regulars in the lounge are over 60, some over 70. Not too many 20-30 year old people hanging out there. 
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I'll be 64 this month and have 50 years, but not all professionally.
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Good grief! I'm younger than you are - I'll be 63 next Feb.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Seventy-three and a half, started coding in 1966 on a CDC-3200.
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I'm 72-1/2 started in 78...got a late start!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I'm a year ahead of you on both counts. 74 and a half, first met the 3200 in 1965.
Wrote my first program on employer time a couple of years later.
Calculating scaling factors for production test equipment.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Hmmm, Monash University I presume? Faculty of Engineering? (The only faculty running a computing course then).
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Yes, Monash. As I recall, second year applied maths. I was doing science, but met a bunch of engineers through that course, and a couple of med students too (who did straight science for 3 years)
6440032 (gawd, the useless numbers permanently engraved on my grey matter!)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You're right about useless numbers permanently engraved on one's grey matter - 6655800
First year Science, discovered only Engineering had computing course, summer vac doing catch-up courses to cover the (small) difference with 1st-year Eng.
Second year Elec Eng, but by then I had discovered "the Nott" (a hotel frequented by students)... and women. So the following year was 2nd-year Elec Eng again.
Then Cliff Bellamy (head of computing) got me a vac job with Burroughs who gave me to Ford. I left there 10 years later.
I'm going to guess from your CodeProject name that you live at Katoomba, Leura or Medlow Bath.
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enhzflep is the password I got assigned at Monash to use the 64 bit DECs.
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This year marks my 40th as a programming professional (e.g. I got paid), and my 44th as a programmer.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Got my first Fortran manual in 1962 and been coding and programming ever since. Simple arithmetic puts me over 80.
I too am surprised at the huge majority of programmers with over 20 years of experience. Maybe only retirees have a lot of time to spend perusing this forum.
Joan F Silverston
jsilverston@cox.net
nhswinc.com
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im my 45th year here, still love it more than ever, even though things do get a tad more frustrating at times, especially with issues you can't be sure are a bug/butterfly or my lack of knowledge. i always used to think it was me, but after so much crap, especially with microsoft stuff, my first thought these days is 'them', not 'me' and i'm generally right. GL
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Missing the "Over 30 years" and "Over 40 years" options. I'm at 31 years!
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32! Ha!
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I wrote my first program in 1975 - it worked first time! It's been downhill ever since.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Me too. 56 years I think. I had been interested in computers since I saw one on display in Denver in 1953. I was between second and third grades at the time. By the time my children were that age, they were using my PC (80286 with 640k plus 1 meg extended) for homework.
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Absolute congratulations man!
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Well over 50% in the 20+ bracket (including myself)
Doesn't surprise me - the active people here are all experienced, the "noobs" are apparently nearly all trying to get by without having to learn anything at all ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yeah - I was a bit surprised when I saw the results! Wow - I was expecting a bit more evenly spread out distribution.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Not really - the ones who want codez plz aren't interested in anything else the site offers, and since they tend to be young and stupid inexperienced they don't look around once they've found what they think is a place to do their homework. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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True that! This site definitely serves more experienced software engineers. 
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Wait, what? There's something beside the Lounge? Free code? I should look around. Probably no Fortran though.
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Not a lot, thankfully!
Some though: fortran site:codeproject.com - Google Search[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The distribution of all members is probably far more even. It's just that many of the active participants are old more experienced. 
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