Where do all the old programmers go?

An article that contains a bunch of anedotes to refute another article that contains a bunch of anecdotes. Hmm...

I want to see the data of where they go and determine from that.

If anyone knows where, let me know. I'm gonna need to head there pretty soon.

58 and coding for a living in Minneapolis...

I was a consultant dev for most of the last 16 years and just started as an FTE with my most recent client.

To work is where I go (59). You won't meet a lot of people like me because when I started (1981) there were way fewer programmers than today plus some became obsolete, some became managers, and some got burned out. So the chances of meeting someone like me if you started in the past decade is not high. This of course makes it hard to decide how much age discrimination there is as it's hard to quantify, unlike gender for example. For me I got this job based on a manager from a previous job needing here what he already knew I could do.