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I don't think TOIBE index is reliable source of the use of a language.
It uses search engines to find, so it finds th most popular, that is
not always equal to most used.

In fact, I've heard that 60% of coding nowadays is COBOL.

COBOL is still the main language in banking, but those programmers
dont make noise in the Net. Something similar happens to Ada. It is
used in huge, but closed projects. I'm sure that Ada is losing share
of market, nevertheless I'm sure that there is a lot of huge, huge
projects that employ hundred of programmers and thousand of man/hours
that are almost invisible in Internet.