D enters Tiobe top 20

[Martin Tschierschke]

On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 15:18:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 15:03:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 14:42:32 UTC, Gregor Mückl wrote:
>>> I am surprised that D didn't fall back down again, though.
>>
>> TIOBE is silly. It matches "d) programming" as in "a) swimming 
>> b) running c) eating d) programming".
>>
>> It changes when Google's ranking engine changes. And Google is 
>> pruning down quite heavily to get more diverse search 
>> results... So, heavily biased. Worse than noise.
>
> Silly as it might be, that is one of the references many MBAs 
> across the enterprise world use when deciding if adopting 
> technology X is worthwhile doing.
>
> The other one being the technology radars produced by 
> consulting companies that are just as silly.

I think this is an important point.

Here you may see the change over time of Tiobes percent value:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/d/

Any comment on this curve?
Is it possible to match certain events to this shape?