On 6/23/2011 10:11 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > Not exactly a valid comparison. A business does care if there is a pool > of developers to develop and maintain their project; in fact, in my last > years as a VFP dev, that's the main obstacle I faced: the lack of available > VFP devs to take over after I left. > > While Tiobe is a pretty bogus measure of language activity, it is still > important that if you are committing yourself and your business to a > language, that you can safely assume that there will be developers who still > use that language in years to come.
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