[devel45a]

First of all Cobol is actually quite widely used for legacy systems.

As as been covered frequently Tiobe is a poor indicator of language popularity especially for Scala. e.g. capecoder.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/language-popularity-its-not-about-search-engine-result-counts/

[code-dog]

I guess that is not the real point of the post. It seems to be more about keeping grounded and not taking 'the buzz' too seriously.