Re: RPG vaults COBOL, leaps 11 spots

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

in regard to getting a guage on the levels of usage of programming
languages, stack overflow is worth a look.
http://stackoverflow.com/tags

It is a forum where people post software questions and others answer.
Questions are tagged by language, so you can see a summary of how many
questions are being asked for each tag.

it is relatively new and run by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know I haven't been around a lot, and the last time I mentioned this
> the trolls appeared, but those interested in the RPG language might find
> this intriguing:
>
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>
> RPG is now the 15th most popular language.  I guess it dropped to 26th
> last month (as I've noted, I don't really keep track) but the surge to
> 15th is pretty astonishing, at least to me.
>
> Even more astonishing, though, is the fact that since the beginning of
> the year, the demand for RPG has skyrocketed, relatively speaking, and
> continues to trend upward.  Very interesting.
>
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/RPG_(OS_400).html
>
> This in comparison to, say, Java, which is slowly trending down, and PHP
> which is basically flat (and has been since about 2005).  And while C#
> still has an overall upward trend, it hasn't done very well in 2009.
> Poor old Visual Basic has been on a pretty steep decline since 2008.
>
> Hey, at least it's not Perl:
>
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Perl.html
>
> Joe
>
>
>
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