D has moved up to number 18!

[Don Clugston]

Dave wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:e62iae$13et$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
>>
>> That's some serious wootage.
>>
>> Though what's with ColdFusion moving up to 20?  Wasn't that some kind 
>> of side-of-the-road web language in the late 90s?  Or has it had some 
>> kind of revival?  And Visual FoxPro too.. weird.
> 
> I can't say why those have jumped up like they have, except to say that 
> maybe it had something to do with TIOBE revising their query(ies) a 
> while back.

I think it's got more to do with this:

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~GettingGoogledForTheTiobeMetricsCount

I'm a little suspicious of the Tiobe metrics; there's clearly _some_ 
distortion happening.

> I think both Cold Fusion and Foxpro still get some pretty heavy use out 
> there - I suspect there's *a lot* of legacy applications still in use, 
> and a lot of independent developers (CF) and small software shops 
> (Foxpro) using them. Foxpro inherited a lot of the Dbase development 
> back in the day. One just never sees them mentioned in IT magazines or 
> taught at Uni. any more.