History and Future of Programming

I watch a lot of YouTube videos about software and I came across a very interesting video by "Uncle" Bob Martin called "The Future of Programming". It is actually more about the history than the future. It was very interesting for a budding programmer such as me.

He starts by talking about Alan Turing who wrote the first code that we would identify as code in 1936. In 1960 there were a could hundred computers in existence and a couple thousand programmers. Just 5 years later there were around fifty thousand computers and a hundred thousand programmers. So in about 20 years we went from one programmer to a hundred thousand programmers. Just 5 years later again in 1970 there are over a million programmers. After this the number of programmers doubles every five years. That means half of all programmers have less than five years experience and the profession is in a perpetual state of inexperience.

Programming has only been around for about 80 years.