Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

[Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 13:08:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 12:28:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +0000, BBasile via 
>> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>>> […]
>>> 
>>> That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different 
>>> culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in 
>>> USA, past 50 yo some people still take the risk to try 
>>> something new. Awesome.
>>
>> I say "bollocks" to your accusation that Europeans post 50 are 
>> a bunch of useless idiots.
>>
>> I call double "bollocks" on the claim that only in the USA do 
>> people do anything.
>
> I agree (I think it's the first time I agree with you!). Age is 
> a state of mind. I've seen people in their 20ies who only think 
> about a pension plan and watch TV every evening until they fall 
> asleep.

But in general, people slow down mentally as they age. Most US 
companies - and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is leading the charge 
with his FWD.us lobby group  - would prefer the government give 
them the capability to hire an unlimited amount of 25 year old 
foreign programmers instead of them having to hire 50 year old 
American programmers.