Yup, this article tells the truth, my programming job was “eliminated†when I turned 60, lol, I was by far the best programmer the company had. But management did not like me because they were incompetent and I wasn't. They management and all the youngsters they hired COULD NOT WRITE GOOD CLEAN CODE. I'd spend a little longer writing 50 or 100 lines of code that did better then the 400 or 600 lines the others produced. But I got the boot, I knew it was coming so for grins I ran tools that test code for complexity (read maintainability) on my stuff and the coder management thought was the best. Most of my stuff came in at under 20, lots under 10 and a few routines in the middle 20's. Management's favorite was pretty much all over 100 (untestable), some pushing 200 (unmainatainable). I am willing to bet dollars to donuts they are still fighting that code today.
Two, three thousand line routines? nested 6, 7, 8 time deep? And that's good code? Not in my world. If I had EVER, EVER written any thing like that I would have turned off my computer and gone to get drunk.