Maybe that's because those still stuck programming in that environment are spending all their time searching the web for ideas on how to do anything - they are skewing the numbers... :o)

Seriously though, could be the number of developers using the language, or a higher number of developers need help using that language or others because a) they are learning the language on their own without training or books or b) they are just plain slow or c) the language is so old they can no longer find the manuals and only have the web for a resource or d) they use someone else's code for the majority of their work and rely entirely on the web:

http://lui.arbingersys.com/index.html

web documents and web searches on a programming language are not necessarily reflective of the percentages of those using that language in relation to other languages.

:o)


>I'm kinda loosing all kinds of respect for Tiobe. Anytime a Cobol type language like RPG/400 is in the top 20 and Foxpro is not, something is horribly wrong. I was programming RPG in the 80s, I kid you not, and I believe it extends back to the 70s, maybe even late 60s. It's as awkward a programming language as you can find and pretty much only runs on IBM midrange computers. Yet Tiobe has it growing like nuts and rates it A-!!! And Foxpro no where to be found!!!!
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>>Also was programming language 2010, and if you look at the current TIOBE, it supassed PHP, VB, C# in February.
>>Probably not totally unrelated to the above ;-)
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>>Recommended.
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>>thomas