TPCI: ho hum

[dsimcha]

== Quote from BCS (ao at pathlink.com)'s article
> Anyone remember D's rank last month? IIRC it was 13 and in that case we (again)
> managed to gain a position with a drop in percentage :b
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/D.html

Last month, and most of 2008:  12, same as now.  My gut feeling is that D will
shoot up significantly in April when D2 is finalized and TDPL is out.  In 20/20
hindsight, I think releasing D1 was kind of a bad idea because it was an
"artificial" release before D had achieved anything near what it had been trying
to achieve.  Furthermore, a lot of people probably are just waiting on D2 being
stable because they don't want to use D1 and then deal with migration headaches.
Since I write a lot of non-production scientific code that doesn't need to be
maintained long-term, I've been using D2 for about a year now, and I absolutely
love it.  Even D1 seems very weak by comparison, and if I ever have to touch Java
or C++ again, just shoot me.