50-Year Veteran Programmer: Programming Is Not Dead and Never Will Be
mkheck · x · 2026-09-29
A veteran programmer who wrote his first serious program in September 1976 marks 50 years in the craft: from punched cards and glass teletypes to workstations and micros, he has written business software, dev tools, games, language implementations, kernel drivers and graphics libraries, run 70+ open-source projects, and coded in dozens of now-forgotten languages. His core message amid the AI coding wave: programming is not dead, and never will be.
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