Quote Originally Posted by Pino View Post
However there are always going to be legacy apps around and I understand a small percentage of developers still need to use it, however that doesnt explain them figures.
Sure it does. My personal legacy nemesis is COBOL and I was forced to learn it once. There's still a huge amount of production COBOL code, Gartner estimated that there were 200 billion lines of COBOL in worldwide usage. Someone needs to maintain it and even use COBOL to make enhancements in existing code. Such penetration is also the reason for the .Net COBOL compiler. These unfortunate developers will definitely show up somewhere in some statistics or forums.

It's something like that with VB6 - it was hugely adopted (I've read estimations of 6 million end-users) and this ensured that there will be lots of people that need to use it for a long time and not just a small percentage of developers. How else would you explain the fact that it's a dead-end unsupported language, part of an IDE replaced for almost a decade which is dated five releases back from the upcoming VS 2010 but still has a noticeable share amongst developers?