Re: RPG vaults COBOL, leaps 11 spots

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW... COMMON in Reno had a larger than usual percentage of new 
attendees.  In my RPG sessions, I had more people who were new to RPG 
entirely than I had people who were migrating from RPG/400 to ILE RPG. 
(Which was a first for me.)

So I really believe there's more new people learning RPG than there was 
before. (Probably because companies are expecting older RPGers to 
retire.)  Whether it's as big of a jump as TIOBE makes it, I don't know.


Joe Pluta 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