Not only that. I've met 'old' (as in, 50+) programmers that were incredibly good.
These guys were programming assembly at the same age we started programming in BASIC (or Python/Ruby or whatever kids start programming in nowadays). I've never heard one of them complaining about how confusing pointers are, or wondering why is it that, although their structure is clearly X bytes big, allocating Y consumes more than X*Y memory.
Age in engineering is a completely irrelevant topic. Sure, old timers are more unlikely to adopt Node.js as their framework, but in general they don't because of the right reasons, not just because they are being backwards.
These guys were programming assembly at the same age we started programming in BASIC (or Python/Ruby or whatever kids start programming in nowadays). I've never heard one of them complaining about how confusing pointers are, or wondering why is it that, although their structure is clearly X bytes big, allocating Y consumes more than X*Y memory.
Age in engineering is a completely irrelevant topic. Sure, old timers are more unlikely to adopt Node.js as their framework, but in general they don't because of the right reasons, not just because they are being backwards.