A programmer who worked for 26 years at Apple talks about his thoughts after retiring, ``I will start programming again when I notice''

Programmer John Calhoun, who worked at Apple for 26 years and has been retired for a year and a half, wrote a blog about what he felt after retirement.

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In the late 1980s, Calhoun, a college student, got a Macintosh computer and fell in love with programming. Mr. Calhoun originally created shareware games for play, and then joined Apple after days of making commercial games for a living.

Mr. Calhoun during his college days.

Mr. Calhoun expected that he would let go of the keyboard after retiring from Apple, where he worked for 26 years, like a retired doctor quitting surgery and starting golf. For 14 months after retirement, Mr. Calhoun said that he was trying various things, such as woodworking production, Blender / 3D printing experiments, riding a bicycle, but he seems to have returned to programming again.

Mr. Calhoun, who learned Python after retirement and started a small project to play with E-ink (electronic paper), said, ``It was like a continuation of the work I left behind, and it was not.'' It is said that there is.

Mr. Calhoun after retirement. He wants to rewrite some of the games he wrote decades ago.

In fact, right after I retired, I felt relieved that I didn't have to dig through code to find out why a dispatch to a background thread didn't complete, or that I didn't have to worry about git failing and completely ruining my project's repo. He said he was satisfied with the openness. Still, Mr. Calhoun said that he started programming again, ``Programming was like a hobby, so it wouldn't be too strange if I started writing code again.''

Calhoun says that around 1988, when he started programming in earnest, he felt that all the fellow programmers he met were working on programming with some kind of passion. 'Can anyone imagine that some of the young engineers who joined the company right after graduating, programming is not only a job, but even something they do in their spare time? I'm just an old man, and when I was young I may just look back and think romantically, but I'm still coding in C and writing a trivial little game, 'he said, spelling his love for programming.