The software development world (it's management, anyway) in general has a bias against older programmers. Back in the bad old days when I was part of management, I heard this expressed directly and forcefully, all the way up to the Board level. The assumption is that older brains are slower brains, and that the extra experience of the older programmers was more than offset by the energy and freshness of the younger folks. Recruiting in most software companies is (whether subtly or overtly) oriented more toward younger programmers than older.
This study says that bias is wrong...
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