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Generation game hits half-century
“I rather thought that I was the oldest second-generation computer scientist,” says John ffitch, professor of software engineering at the University of Bath.
“I wrote my first program 50 years ago for a Pegasus computer. My father Edgar was a government servant, and learned to program a week or two before me and my sister.
“He will be 90 in six weeks, and is still programming. I still write programs on a daily basis, both open source and commercial.”
We checked John’s bio and he was born on 10 December 1945. Which means if he wins our competition, it will be just in time for his 62nd birthday. Any challengers?
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