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were you trying to say you've been coding *for* 40 years? that "old" in "40 years old" confuses me a lot

or are you 60 years of age now, starting at 40 and have been coding long enough to see editors progress?

I'm 53, started at 10. At that time, being able to edit a line of code without re-typing it completely was "cool" :-) Then, on apple 2, we had GPLE (global program line editor) then Assembler toolkit which had an editor. Then I moved to PC. First I used GWBasic (it had an editor) then Turbo Pascal, then multi-edit, then emacs, then Visual Studio, then Eclipse, then Word (became a manager :-)), then back to emacs and VSCode (coding again!) and a bit of Kate.

I'm pretty sure they are not a native English speaker. Many languages use 'since 40 years' to mean what we say as 'for 40 years'.

Or maybe "since <<I was>> 40 years old"?

I think it’s an unfortunate typo…”old” => “ago”?

yeah, typed too fast. I was talking about 40 years ago. Apple 2+ to be specific.

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