D has moved up to number 18!

[Dave]

Don Clugston wrote:
> 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

Heh, heh - The few Foxpro developers I know are really pragmatic and 
getting together and "gaming TIOBE" for the good of Foxpro would be 
right up their alley <g> Hats off to them :)

The last updated date on that corresponds to when the "jump" started to 
happen, I think...

Still, it does speak to at least an active Foxpro community out there yet.

> 
> 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.