>>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.

Well, in that case they should also add: vfp6, vfp7, vfp8, vfp9.

>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