D is back on Tiobe, now in position 23

[Matthias Pleh]

Am 21.05.2011 08:02, schrieb Russel Winder:
> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 22:19 +0100, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> And yes, I know TIOBE is a completely useless index (read that as a list
>> of sophisticated arguments you've read before about it rather than a
>> single sentence :3)
>
> I disagree that it is useless.  It is interesting on two grounds:
>
> 1.  If you have any sort of idea about what they are actually measuring
> and are careful no to over-infer, it is a very interesting measure of
> what is interesting to people in the Web-verse.  It is a measure of
> "buzz".
>
> 2.  It is interesting to see how people who have no idea of what is
> actually being measured use the results for decision making.  There is
> an interesting ebb and flow between reinforcement of the status quo and
> promoting innovation.  Also there is the ability to manipulate the
> system as Go did last year.
>
> Obviously though there are dangers . . .

<quote>
The first 100 pages per search engine are checked for possible false 
positives and this is used to define the confidence factor.
</quote>

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinf/tpci/tpci_definition.htm


'd programming' gives ca. 81.300.300 results on google ...

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Matthias