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"that's not how I'm used to doing it"

To be fair - I'm not sure how that is age related. e.g. I've had very strong reactions from some inexperienced developers who literally only had knowledge of one way of doing things to the possibility that another option might be possible and better.

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Yep, pattern bias happens to a lot of people in a lot of age groups in a lot of professions. One of the consequences of having a massive pattern matching machine for the human CPU.

It's irritating in programmers because we can write prototypes to prove out our theories. It is really irritating in the fuzzy areas (like government and organization grant readers).

I hear this much more often from the less-experienced programmers than I do from the seasoned, experienced ones. Once in a while, and usually in a very large shop, I hear it from an experienced veteran. However, usually (not always, but usually) from one who's had 1 year of experience 20 times rather than 20 years of experience.

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