Oh my God, I am ***so*** old!!! | The Coffeehouse

Wil
Wil

The most depressing thing you can possibly imagine has just now happened to me. For reasons that are not at all clear, I suddenly realized from just out of the blue that it was forty years ago this very month (I don't remember the exact day) when I wrote my first-ever computer program.

I hope to have it debugged "any day now".

Sad

[C]

jamie

well they say 60 is the new 40 - so ..we're....60!
* unless you were 20 when you wrote the program...in which case your 40 ,,and im 60!

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

"...hope I die before I get old..."

"...ain't trying to cause a big sensation...."

"...jjjjj-- "

JohnnyAwesome
Eggshell with Romalian type. What do you think?

Do you still have it (I am presuming the original punch cards)?

Turn it into a retro T-Shirt and then scoff at the youngsters who don't get it.

MB

Wil wrote:
The most depressing thing you can possibly imagine has just now happened to me. For reasons that are not at all clear, I suddenly realized from just out of the blue that it was forty years ago this very month (I don't remember the exact day) when I wrote my first-ever computer program.

I hope to have it debugged "any day now".

Thank god for that... at only 35 years ago, I'm still the proverbial spring chicken... and here I was beginning to think that maybe I was past my best work... Tongue Out

BTW: I STILL don't understand what the hell I was programming back then... just a wide-eyed teenager who annoyed the crap out of the IT department (nothing much has changed there) and who went through an awful lot of IBM cards.

MikeeeG
Only the few against the many

I feel your pain

57-tommorrow
banged up elbow
P.A.D.

and C# Beta2 Orcas express

Big Smile

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

My father, who's 72, is learning Perl. Smiley

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

Minh wrote:
My father, who's 72, is learning Perl.

Are we talking about some sort of adult-onset masochism here, or maybe a "At my age I've been through everything, now I can handle Perl as well"?

Why, for the love of god, why?

jamie

it's old day on c9!! didnt you know?? Tongue Out

AndyC

For the first time in many a long year, l feel young. Thanks! Tongue Out

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

"You're only as old as you feel!" Geez, I hate that patronising clique! Sound's like an excuse to just be pervie! (before you all say anything I'm not a dirty old man) :0)

C9 has a fair percentage of older guys here! I wonder if we are infact the majority?

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

Sabot wrote:
"You're only as old as you feel!" Geez, I hate that patronising clique!

I'm 37, but I feel like I'm 70, so I hate that quote too.

Well, this thread makes me feel better - it's only been 20 years for me.

Next summer it'll be 15 years since I picked up a copy of Petzold's "Programming Windows 3.1" and fired up a C++ compiler. Happy days as a student with plenty of time to sit and study new (to me) technologies.
This morning, before coming to work, I started looking at Expression Blend and WPF for the first time with any seriousness : feels like a whole new ballgame! Wish I had time to sit and study like I used to.

Herbie

littleguru
<3 Seattle

I'm also old.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

littleguru wrote:
I'm also old.

What? I've got shoes older than you!

Wink

Herbie

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

Thanks guys, I was starting to feel like I was settling into a premature middle-age at 26. But now I feel positively spring-chickeny.

Mmm... Chicken.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Dr Herbie wrote:

littleguru wrote: I'm also old.

What? I've got shoes older than you!

Herbie

I'm imagining how they might have looked like.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

littleguru wrote:

Dr Herbie wrote:

littleguru wrote: I'm also old.

What? I've got shoes older than you!

Herbie

I'm imagining how they might have looked like.

Well, at least he doesn't have yoghurt older than you.

This thread makes me young, as when the world was new. It also, apparently, makes me feel like quoting the worst line from Star Trek 2 for no good reason.

On the XKCD forums there was a year of birth poll, which shows over 80% of the posters there were born later than me, so it made me feel old. This thread is a good counterpoint. Tongue Out

Scrooge: "Bah!"
Donald: "And "humbug", right?"
Scrooge: "Yes, dagnabbit -- humbug, too!"
(From "The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck, Part Twelve: The Richest Duck in the World" by Don Rosa)

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Sven Groot wrote:

Scrooge: "Bah!"
Donald: "And "humbug", right?"
Scrooge: "Yes, dagnabbit -- humbug, too!"
(From "The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck, Part Twelve: The Richest Duck in the World" by Don Rosa)

The similarities I keep finding between us are starting to creep me out, Sven.

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

Dr Herbie wrote:

littleguru wrote: I'm also old.

What? I've got shoes older than you!

Herbie

That's nothing, my wife used to have clothes which were older than she was.

Plus, I've been a member of the RAC since 1977, which was extremely precocious for someone born in 1980.

Wil
Wil

Sven Groot wrote:

Scrooge: "Bah!"
Donald: "And "humbug", right?"
Scrooge: "Yes, dagnabbit -- humbug, too!"
(From "The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck, Part Twelve: The Richest Duck in the World" by Don Rosa)

I started this thread because it suddenly dawned on that I've been banging on my various computer keyboards for four decades now, but the quote posted above has now brought back a certain memory that helps me feel a bit better about myself. In 1996 I attended the 95th birthday celebration for Carl Barks, the comic-book writer and artist who was the creator of Scrooge McDuck. (The birthday party was a fund-raiser for the Museum of Comic Art, so the public was invited to attend - for a price, of course). At 95 Barks was a little slow in his step, supporting himself with a cane, but he was generally spry and quite alert. Perhaps a lifetime of being so creative - and of writing and drawing so many classic stories for kids - had kept him young. Since most of my computer programs appear to have been written by a 5-year-old Wink

then maybe there's some hope for me, too!

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Wil wrote:
In 1996 I attended the 95th birthday celebration for Carl Barks, the comic-book writer and artist who was the creator of Scrooge McDuck.

You got to see Carl Barks in person? I am envious!

I mean, I'm a big fan of Don Rosa's stories, but obviously Barks is the master. In fact, it's Rosa's close adherence to Barksian facts (as well as real historical facts) that makes me prefer him over other modern Duck writers.

I have been a subscriber of the Dutch "Donald Duck" weekly magazine since 1989, right up until I left for Japan this year. A lot of the old issues I've literally read to pieces. And although the magazine contains comics about a lot of other Disney characters as well, Barks's Ducks remain my favourites.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Sven Groot wrote:

I mean, I'm a big fan of Don Rosa's stories, but obviously Barks is the master. In fact, it's Rosa's close adherence to Barksian facts (as well as real historical facts) that makes me prefer him over other modern Duck writers.

QFT.

I'm positive that my reading Barks' stories since early childhood is the sole reason for my interest in history. And yeah, Barks' stories are classics, but I'm a big fan of Rosa's detailed drawing style, and he manages to work a lot more historical facts in his stories than Barks did. The Life & Times series is a masterpiece in that regard, combining nearly all Barksian facts with 'modern' history. I mean, encasing Bombie the Zombie in ice, and then putting Scrooge on a certain ocean liner heading for New York in 1912? Brilliant.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Sven Groot wrote:
You got to see Carl Barks in person? I am envious!

...

I have been a subscriber of the Dutch "Donald Duck" weekly magazine since 1989, right up until I left for Japan this year. A lot of the old issues I've literally read to pieces. And although the magazine contains comics about a lot of other Disney characters as well, Barks's Ducks remain my favourites.

same here, despite I'm not subscribed to the dutch version of "Donald Duck" weekly. But it might be the same time when I started to buy these magazines on a monthly or weekly base (depented on the money I got from the parents) Wink

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