age of Python programmers

[Phil Frost]

I work in a python company of 9 where the average age is probably 25.
I've been programming since I was 10 or so, first playing with basic on
a commodore 64 (old hardware by then) and then learning ia32 assembly and
working my way to higher level languages.

I never really thought programming was unpopular among young people, but
now that I think about it, the only person I've met in real life that
was a young programmer lives 1500km away, and we met on the internet, of
course.

Furthermore, it seems now the way to become a programmer is to learn VB
and write crude programs through high school, then go to college and
learn Java, then find a job in web development. I wonder what portion of
programmers these days have a real understanding of how the hardware
they manipulate works? From this thread so far it seems like such
knowledge is more common among Python programmers, which I find odd
since Python isn't exactly a low level language. Perhaps it's because no
one learns Python until becoming frustrated with 10 other languages?

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:41:34PM +0200, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
> Gerrit Muller wrote:
> > Most Python programmers I know are 40+. I am myself 47 (born in december 
> > 1956).
> > 
> > regards Gerrit
> > 
> > P.S.,
> > 
> > how many teeners are still programming? Most teeners I know build 
> > websites, but they don't program.
> 
> I certainly wouldn't call these shockingly horrible bunches of IE-tags
> thrown together with the intention of being regarded as "cool" a "website".
> 
> Reinhold, rant rant