[goatinaboat]

Should we be trusting the experienced folks that say mainframes are fine and editing the DOM directly with jQuery is good enough? I mean zipping up binaries and dropping them on a share is just as good as GitHub, right?

Do you think that older doctors insist on using obsolete surgical techniques or less effective medications? Or older lawyers reference laws that have already been repealed?

Ageism is an excuse for being uncompromising and unwilling to accept that someone younger than you might have a good idea or know something you don't.

They might do, sure. But you’ll hit ageism eventually and see younger people reinventing a wheel that you too reinvented.

[pc86]

Obsolete? Probably not. Indicated in outdated literature but contraindicated in current literature? Absolutely. I am old enough to have experienced it, and haven't. I'm also not against doing things differently than I did in the past. I've worked with 30 year olds who were completely unwilling to compromise, and folks in their 60s who were. I don't know anyone who would rather work with the former over the later because of age.