it's just frozen in time and ignoring what happened in the meantime

There may be a reason for this:

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

(Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt)

Alexander

Ha ha, I like it! Reminded me of when I was writing Organizational Culture (Part VI): Sociology:

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.

-- Planck's Principle

A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so

-- Albert Einstein

Designer	Language	Age
John Backus	FORTRAN	30
Dennis Ritchie	C	30
Bjarne Stroustrup	C++	30
Yukihiro Matsumoto	Ruby	30
John McCarthy	LISP	32
Brendan Eich	Javascript	33
Larry Wall	Perl	33
Guido van Rossum	Python	34
James Gosling	Java	39
Anders Hejlsberg	C#	39

It will be interesting to see if more breakthroughs are made by older folks if life expectancy improves further, especially if it dramatically improves via genetic engineering ... though I won't be around to see it. :)

Update: As pointed out to me in the Chatterbox, note that many of the ten computer language designers in the table above had already made important contributions in their twenties. Anders Hejlsberg, for example, wrote the core of the Turbo Pascal compiler in his early twenties, while still a student. Dennis Ritchie was a pioneer developer of the Multics and Unix operating systems. Please feel free to point out earlier contributions made by others in the table above.

> Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Feature freeze before end of life cycle ...

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
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Feature freeze before end of life cycle ...

More like unexpectedly extended life cycle without the required patches to the hardware. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy, a "feature freeze" around 35 would probably be no big deal duing the stone age, given that you could expect to reach an age of 54 if you managed to survive the first 15 years. Perhaps, it would act as an element of stability. In our time, you can expect to reach an age of more than 70 or 80 years quite easily, depending on where you live.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

just frozen in time and ignoring what happened in the meantime°

I've been guilty of that too LanX, I'm sure others have too...

However, I think the difference is that I didn't so much ignore by choice but through true ignorance...
I do try to improve when presented with what seems like a better way. Usually - if it comes from the Monastery, what seems like a better way, is a better way.

like staring into the closet of my grandma...

You'll forgive me if I don't dwell on that thought for too long...