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1955 which makes me - retired yay!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I can't retire until my kids retire.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I was born 1955 - "still coding after all these years". I believe that is a lyric to one of those ballads you youngsters call 'pop' songs.
8)
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Not the oldest, and have only posted twice before, but I do follow CP daily.
Born 1951. Employed as a programmer from 1972 to 2017.
Now retired but still programming as a volunteer for a Christian organization.
And for those talking about fathers, my father was born in 1893 and fought in both world wars.
1914-1918 for the British Army, in Greece.
1939-1945 for the Australian Air Force, in the Middle East.
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May I take the price for the youngest one? I don't know if I am even allowed to reply, but March 1999.
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As long as you can have a beer you can post 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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That won't work in the US where they have weird ideas on alcohol. Apparently you have to be 21.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Im only 554256142, give or take a few minutes.
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Minutes? Maybe seconds?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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So, nearly 18?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So far, I appear to be the eldest, with a birth year of 1944. I'd be happy to teach any of you young'uns what I remember offhand about the early days of FORTRAN and COBOL! Of course, eventually I progressed from there to Basic, then C, C++, and finally C# with a bit of JavaScript and a few others thrown in for good measure.
Please wake me in time for my nap!
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We have here one 10 years before you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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No relation to the famous computer scientist Edsger W Dykstra?
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Not as far as I know, but like him my family immigrated from the Netherlands. In my case, though, my grandparents immigrated in the 1880s. He came on his own as an adult after he was already well-known in computer science.
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@Dennis Dykstra: Sorry 1944 doesn't make it. How about April 1943? First program Fortran II (compiler was a deck of punch cards), Last coding Angular 7 a couple of days ago.
Agree it's time for a nap!
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You are even with theoldfool... Same year, same month...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I can't say I am the oldest, but born 11/1954 and first started programming in 1977.
And still going strong with C#. .NET, Blazor, Xamarin.Forms, .NET Core, etc.
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I don't post a lot, but I do post here, I enjoy the daily conversations.
Aug 1978
hmmm....
- Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. (Optimus Prime, or Michael Bay, but I prefer Otpimus Prime)
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My age is now 77. I don't like the order of these digits so I simply add them
and tell everyone I'm 14. Started out with punched cards and Fortran. Primitive
but pretty secure.
73
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1989 though I generally don't respond just but I do like to lurk in the shadows and read responses.
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Same here: I don't post but I do read responses. In fact, I think this is my first post ever.
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- Mind you, I can't remember why I am here.
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