Exactly. 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 COB

Exactly. 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 :-) )