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Yeah, I did the COBOL thing back in the mid-80's. Those who bitch about VB being verbose have never written anything in COBOL.
Yeah, it's fun to get creative in languages like that. I actually did some of the bit manipulation you're talking about in COBOL, just for fun.
I was refering to the people who don't do anything creative and never move on from their high-level language of choice.
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Bob.
But did you intend to mean the oldest programmer here? as in years of existence on planet earth?
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Yeh.. "oldest programmer existence on planet earth" is perfect Title for this discussion.
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my answer still stands. Its simply Bob 
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Who is Bob ?
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No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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For many of us here the experience of temporality is a flux orbiting levity whose apogee approaches timelessness, and whose perigee is senility.
Of course, this is a fiction created by the four-billion years, or so, old practical joke of so-called "evolution," which formed the sorry bags of meat-over-bones in which we hallucinate, pretending what we are conscious of is ... reality.
Fortunately, we now have another eternal moment of ordinary miraculous in which to be new, forever ...
Happy New Year !
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : 'I know all about it. I've already found it.'
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'”
Vincent Van Gogh
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I remember (with great fondness) those heady times in the mid-70s when you'd laboriously "type" your code on a deck of punched-cards wrapped in a piece of paper and an elastic band and put them on a counter and wait for them-thar computer operators to run them through the card reader. Sometimes, you'd try and strike a rapport with the operators in the hope your deck of cards would make it to the top of the stack. It was all so analogue then.
I've been churning out shite code "professionally" since about 1978/79.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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It's generally accepted that it's Henry Minute[^] who's coding career began with code punched into Stegosaurus fin plates, and executed using an array of uRaptor processors...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
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OriginalGriff wrote: code punched into Stegosaurus fin plates
Was it a bug in his software that made them go extinct? 
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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No, he doesn't write bugs. Possibly he uses so many of them they died out though...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Who is top of the list?
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Top person not mean the oldest guy ... he is contributing more.. my question is different.
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@AmitGajjar wrote: my question is different.
Your original question was "Who is most senior programmer here.... ?". In my opinion Griff gets that title by virtue of his contribution to the site. You are free to nominate anyone you think has done more.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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@AmitGajjar wrote: say in programming from last 30 years or more...
I started programming in 7th grade, so that would have been when I was 12 or so. In August, that'll be 40 years.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: programming in 7th grade
But were you employed to do so?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: But were you employed to do so?
Well, in 8th grade I was taught how to program in the boot code for the PDP-11, which would crash frequently when the mag drive drew too much power. So, you could say I was "employed" for a very important task. 
Marc
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Does this[^] bring back memories?
For me, the earliest I remember was the DG Nova 3[^] - I think I started the PDP 8[^] at university quite a few times when learning it's assembler, but I've managed to forget all about that.
Them was the days! When the accumulator value was permanently shown - and changing - in LEDs on the front of the box! None of this wussy "rotating circles" to show it was busy, oh, no...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: Them was the days!
Indeed they were. Having been 15 right when computers became affordable to regular people, that was quite amazing. When I was 18, my gf's father was one of the folks who was figuring out what transistors were good for, back when he was in his early 20's. Crazy stuff.
Marc
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Not me; my first programming job began in 1989 -- VAX BASIC on a MicroVAX 3600.
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I started in 1965, almost 50 years ago, my how time flies when you are having fun.
Dave.
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