Ruby declared Tiobe language of 2006

[John Reimer]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:51:22 -0500, Ant wrote:

> janderson wrote:
>> sclytrack wrote:
>>> TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2007
>>> Ruby is now in the top 10. D is at position 14 and still climbing.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now let us make D the language of 2007.
>> 
>> I think Tiobe may be a good tool for forming a battle/marketing plan for D.
>> 
> 
> Allow me to submit a different idea.
> 
> Tiobe ranking for D is crap:
> there is no way D should be before lisp, ada, cobol, pascal, hell, even 
> rpg on "skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors.", no way!
> 
> Who believes that is completely alienated from reality.
> (I was gonna say idiot but that's not true - people might just be ignorant)
> 
> So Tiobe as a marketing tool will just bring us at best ignorant people.
> 
> this is the second time I say this, some others agree with me on the 
> first time.
> I have to say this because nobody else will.
> 
> I have no doubt that D the population size will more than double.
> 
> Long live D!
> 
> Ant


I agree with you, Ant.  But you aren't the only one that has mentioned
this. ;)

-JJR