> Would you agree that the trend of programming language is progressing to higher and higher level of abstraction and further and further away from the machine details?
That's...less than clear. The extreme high level of abstraction in PLs is consistently increasing, or at least non-decreasing, over time, but the mean/median used in actual programming may not be.
With some minor assumptions, my assertion would be correct. Yours needs a lot of strong assumptions to be mathematically feasible.
Basically, you are saying, when the max of a sequence is increasing, the mean/median stays or even decreases. That would require that the frequencies on the lower end to increase much faster than that on the higher end, which is certainly not the case. For example, the number of C programmers is growing faster than the number of Java programmer today? No one would think that's correct.
That's...less than clear. The extreme high level of abstraction in PLs is consistently increasing, or at least non-decreasing, over time, but the mean/median used in actual programming may not be.