TIOBE october

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 04:00:02 UTC, Israel wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 03:26:37 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
> wrote:
>> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>
>> d up from 31 in march.  Just below scala, sas, and fortran.  
>> No doubt noisy, and possibly news about Andrei leaving 
>> Facebook had an influence.  They changed the algorithm to be 
>> more tolerant of noise, which has had an impact on the results 
>> (which might also be a hint about the degree of precision in 
>> such an exercise) but don't say how that affected D, if at all.
>
> By noisy you mean hype?

Having a high element that doesn't relate to the underlying 
phenomenon one is trying to measure.  That's intrinsic to the 
problem domain, at least if you approach it in this way.