Hey, man, you'd be sad too if you lived to see what modern man would do to programming languages:<p><a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/_media/img/fellows/2004_niklaus_wirth.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/_media/img/fello...</a><p><a href="http://kazimirmajorinc.com/Documents/Why-Dijkstra-didnt-like-Lisp/McCarthy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://kazimirmajorinc.com/Documents/Why-Dijkstra-didnt-like...</a><p>The old guys wrote the best stuff:<p><a href="https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf</a>
In addition to the caveats they list, there may be systematic biases as to who includes a profile pic and who doesn't. Even an enormous sample and perfect inferences from the face API can't surmount a bad dataset (bad depending on what you are trying to learn from it)
There's only one conclusion to draw from the age data:<p>Somewhere between 50 and 60, software developers realize that their skill can be better put to work managing the retirement fund.