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Interesting poll found on CodeProject.

At what age did you start programming?

Option	Votes	%
less than 10 years old	342	11.5
10 - 15 years old	1097	37.0
16 - 18 years old	639	21.5
19 - 21 years old	453	15.3
22 - 25 years old	236	8.0
26 - 30 years old	124	4.2
31 - 35 years old	31	1.0
36 - 45 years old	33	1.1
46 or older	13	.4
Responses	2968

The logic is respected about the starting age, except that if you are a stats believer some blokes start very very early !

And the number of kids programming under 15 is quite impressive.

So if we apply those figures to a retirement graph, we are all good for nursing homes at 25.