>Hi
>
>I was surprised to see Visual Foxpro now number 20 at
>
>http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
>
>Simon

I wrote to the Tiobe company:

>You might have had this hint for the 1000th time; but do you also
>search for variants of names of programming languages? For example
>"Visual Foxpro" is very often referred to as: "VFP", or just Foxpro, as
>Visual Basic is referred to as VB, etc. Do they also count?

I got the following answer:

>Visual FoxPro is currently only measured by means of the term "FoxPro". I have
>added "VFP" to this list. If there is more than one term to search for the TPC index
>takes the maximum of the queries. Since "FoxPro" generates much more hits than "VFP",
>there is no difference adding "VFP". We are planning to take the real union of the
>search results (counting the intersection only once) in the near future. In that case
>the term "VFP" will certainly affect the ratings of Visual FoxPro.

This means the Fox will climb a little higher, because ABAP, Pascal, Ada and Fortran AFAIK do not have alternative names. VB.net also will climb.

Although most of the critical remarks I have read here on UT on this Index are right, by some mysterious way this index attracts my attention. And I like it very much Fox climbs so high, although to me it wouldn't make a difference in my work. I keep using VFP until something better appears to do my work, whether VFP is on place 99 or place 20.

Lennert