Publicity (was: Re: Why is 2.0 in the works already?)

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Wed Jun 20 06:19:37 PDT 2007


Anders Bergh wrote:

> On 6/19/07, Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar at igesund.net> wrote:
>> The only reason to worry about TIOBE, is that high rankings may boost
>> knowledge about D. As is rather obvious by looking at the list, D's
>> numbers are most likely highly inflated, and a reason for this is
>> suggested at
>>
>> http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/is-tiobe-fatally-flawed/
> 
> I just read that post, and scrolling down to the comments makes the
> post less notable. Google apparently cuts results at 1000 results, and
> removes duplicates, shrinking the numbers which caused his search
> results to be even more flawed than TIOBE's.
> 

Yes, his ranking was definately wrong too, don't necessarily make TIOBE's
more correct though :) If TIOBE use Google, the argumentation would affect
them too in some form.

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