Re: TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2007

[j.khaldi@oltrelinux.com]

On Nov 4, 6:56 pm, Martin Krischik <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You, I don't like the index, but it is there, widely used and I think we
> have to deal with it.
>
> And currently we deal badly - place 20 - one down and we are off the scale:
>
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
>
> Yes, sure those Lua advocates must have fixed something to gain 32 places in
> one year:
>
> http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Lua.html
>
> But then it shows that they have a dedicated comunity which can fix
> something. Why can't we?
First you have to fix this: Ada lacks a free and *fast* compiler,
perhaps written in Ada (like the free Pascal one); and then this: an
integrated development tool written in Ada to (like Lazarus -
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/).

> On a lighter side: Visual-Basic overtook C++ ?!?
Many desktop applications are developed in VB or Delphi. They are
fast, cheap and easy to write using RAD tools.
Jilani