Alex,

FYI, ABAP is a proprietary programming language used in SAP (http://www.sap.com) applications.

-Dan

>>I was surprised to see Visual Foxpro now number 20 at
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>>http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
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>>Simon
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>Nice, but the list does not make much sense to me.
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>VFP below Fortran? Who the hell is doing Fortran nowadays?
>VFP below ABAP? What's ABAP? Never heard of it.
>PL/SQL? That's a query language, not a programming language. It is a just flavor of SQL. So why is not T-SQL in the top list then?
>JavaScript? A scripting language. Are there *any* programs written entirely in javaScript?
>etc.
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>Q: What definition of programming languages has been used?
>A: We adopted the definition of programming language from Wikipedia.
>Based on this definition languages such as HTML and XML are not considered
>programming languages. The same holds for data query language SQL.
>ASP and ASP.NET are also not because it is regarded a technique
>that makes use of other languages such as JavaScript and VBScript
>or .NET compatible languages.
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