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How about this: Any language popularity index that doesn't include COBOL is a joke. This is an interesting requirement because COBOL is used everywhere the kin
by derleth 16y ago
How about this: Any language popularity index that doesn't include COBOL is a joke.
This is an interesting requirement because COBOL is used everywhere the kinds of people who make these indexes aren't looking. Finding ways to include it in a reasonable fashion will likely uncover uses of other languages that really are obscure, and that would be interesting.
- pragmatic 16y agoExactly. There are COBOL jobs that go unfilled every year. The local college started teaching it again (I think using COBOL.net of all things) because the COBOL programmers are all retiring. Seems to me TIOBE is a good tool to show your boss to convince him/her that it's ok to use Ruby b/c it's gaining in popularity. (I wouldn't do that of course, I would instead state that obviously Python is more popular and we need to use that :-) )