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would be a good indicator for some future estimates, but lisp, ruby, python etc are all around 30yrs.

That was what I was looking for - php and node.js seem most popular with younger people, but not by much. What is surprising is that game development is much more popular with younger people than web development.

- as are c and c++. What gives?

That mostly younger generation uses Stack Overflow and thus age-over-languages cannot be extracted from the data analysis. We are just learning statistics and probability and i think this happens if the sample data is incorrect or not diverse enough.

A fair number of schools still use C and C++ as the language of instruction.

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