I don't feel bad about it, really, but this makes clear that the Author of the article probably never did work with this languages and didn't work maintaining any systems developed in those now zombie languages.

I think that those stats have much sense if you think that there is too much code working in production and that all this situations can justify this reborn on TIOBE:

- You have to maintain a legacy system (VB in this case) and you need to search some info about language functionality or parameters, what do you do? If you have not installed the MSDN on your disk, then you search it on Google

- The same applies to old ASP pages with VBscript. You probably search for VBscript or VB6

- You need to search some examples about COM functionality (COM components, Soap, XML, WMI, etc) used from an old Windows language, what do you do? you search it on Google, and probably you search for a VB6 example even if you are interested in VFP or other language. Why? because VB6 have always been the Microsoft preference in last century, and most examples are done using VB6. I did search the other day for a VB6 example if something that I want to call from VFP!

And the same applies to any COM compatible language. It's easier to find something for VB6 than for anything else.

Fernando D. Bozzo

El 15 feb. 2018 16:21, "Paul H. Tarver" paul@tpcqpc.com escribió:

Did anyone catch this article about "Zombie Languages"?

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zombie-programming- languages-could-visu al-basic-be-the-next-cobol/?ftag=TRE684d531 https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zombie-programming- languages-could-vis ual-basic-be-the-next-cobol/?ftag=TRE684d531&bhid= 19995525687222274123473679 288983 &bhid=19995525687222274123473679288983

While the article focuses on Visual Basic, I think VFP qualifies under their definition:

Zombie Languages: "Those old developer favorites that refuse to die"

To be honest, it makes all of us FoxPro coders cool again: We are all "Zombie Wranglers!"

James Milligan also drew parallels with the perennial demand for
programmers
skilled in venerable mainframe programming language COBOL, a language older
than The Beatles.



"Other languages which continue to be widely used despite running legacy
systems include COBOL. It's known that COBOL tends to be preferred in
business, finance and administrative systems due to its efficiency in
handling large volumes of data - so it's predicted to remain popular across
these sectors."

Paul

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