Do you mind clarifying your question? If by "Turtle Programmer" you mean your typical business software developer I.e. the 9-5 type, not the type of Si valley startup type then yes, for every one of the "hip" rapidly evolving and changing always-on-top-of everything type of programmer there will be 10 of your normal "Turtle Programmers" grinding away every day making everything from your banking systems to your cloud server are functioning correctly. Depending on what languages you know, your worth may be different, if you are well versed in COBOL then congrats! You are the minority of programmers whose average salary can be anywhere from 100-400k a year. COBOL programmers aren't as cool or as hip as other developers e.g. Rust developer, but thanks to the laws of supply and demand, demand for COBOL programmers have skyrocketed in recent years due to the amount of COBOL code that have been written and the dearth of new COBOL programmers.
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No they are not worth much (or anything). The language was(is) used just to teach young ones and has been replaced mostly with Scratch now.