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Re:Scala Less Popular Than COBOL: Programming In The Real World by devel45a on Friday April 27, 2012 @12:12PM (#3899723)
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/

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Re:Scala Less Popular Than COBOL: Programming In The Real World by code-dog on Friday April 27, 2012 @12:19PM (#3899765)
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.
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