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There are more than 9 millions of people that write code

Facetious, or an actual figure? If the latter, can you point us to a ref please?

I think that was this talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ Joel says that according to MS study there are 9mln people that write code. http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/products/listings