Comment Re:Old Developers and Poor Upgrade path. (Score 1) 406
I would not be surprised that there are a lot of programmers today who aren't necessarily people who got a formal education in development but grew into the position.
This isn't actually that different from how a lot of people ended up in COBOL development, which also refuses to die. I did it for a few years straight out of university and had studied Software Eng., but I was definitely in the minority.