Umm the more comparable parable would be "or the proverbial graybeard who has done ~~it~~ kidney surgery a thousand times"
The stuff you did in software 20 years ago has absolutely nothing to do with the stuff that's being done today. Like holly shit most people weren't even using source control back, unit testing and automated testing in general was SciFi, it was done by QA departments if you were big enough to do it.
People were writing C and the major problems of the industry were how to fit shit in to x MB of ram and x CPU cycles.
Security was abysmal - you didn't even have process isolation on OS-es.
The languages and the practices are also completely different - disregarding the "we did it in the 60s with LISP in this paper" crowd - outside of academia people were just getting in to the OOP which was the pinnacle of abstractions back then.
This is the drag&drop and copy-paste as an abstraction VB shit era.
Unless you were at one of the cutting edge places that were actually innovating back then in terms of process and stuff there's likely nothing from that skill set that transfers on to the problems that we are dealing with today beyond the CS grad basics.
The stuff you did in software 20 years ago has absolutely nothing to do with the stuff that's being done today. Like holly shit most people weren't even using source control back, unit testing and automated testing in general was SciFi, it was done by QA departments if you were big enough to do it.
People were writing C and the major problems of the industry were how to fit shit in to x MB of ram and x CPU cycles.
Security was abysmal - you didn't even have process isolation on OS-es.
The languages and the practices are also completely different - disregarding the "we did it in the 60s with LISP in this paper" crowd - outside of academia people were just getting in to the OOP which was the pinnacle of abstractions back then.
This is the drag&drop and copy-paste as an abstraction VB shit era.
Unless you were at one of the cutting edge places that were actually innovating back then in terms of process and stuff there's likely nothing from that skill set that transfers on to the problems that we are dealing with today beyond the CS grad basics.