This 70-Year-Old Programmer Is Preserving An Ancient Coding Language On Github
by The Daily Eye Team September 12 2015, 4:46 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 23 secsShields has been coding for more than 50 years, and over the decades he’s worked at both NYU and IBM as a research programmer—someone who pushes the boundaries of software design. Shields has racked up a few accomplishments worth bragging about over his long career, including being one of the developers behind Jikes, a Java compiler that was also IBM’s first open source project.