D surpasses Delphi on tiobe index

[Manfred Nowak]

renoX wrote

> IMHO doing an action only to increase Tiobe rating is cheating,
> which is ridiculous.

Every index based on buzz is vulnerable to spam.

After Google noticed such spam in 2004 and cancelled it out, Tiobe 
reintroduced that spam by including it from MSN and Yahoo. Despite of 
this, Tiobe considers the index as based on "strategic data".

If you cannot falsify that those "strategic data" sets are built up by 
cheating, as you say, then what is the value of that index?

-manfred