TIOBE Programming Community Index

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hello,

You know I am quite critical of the index [1] - Still it is widely used 
so I always have look at it.

This month a trend which I have observed the last few month has become 
even more apparent: The languages occupying the TOP-5 have all lost 
ground (while maintaining there relative position) - with place 6 being 
unchanged. On the other end all but one language in position 7 to 20 
have gained ground (with relative positions scrambled).

It might be wishfull thinking but could "Everybody programs in language 
X - so we need to program in X as well" finally come to an end?

Ada itself is on 17 for several month now but last year we had a better 
position a place 14. We also gained 0.06% but that was not enough to 
keep our position [2].

At this time I like to remind you all that only web-pages containing the 
magic term "Ada programming" will be counted. We would not be the first 
to hack the index by making sure that *every* relevant page *also* has 
the magic term. Or how do you think Ruby [3] and D [4] made there sudden 
steep accent? But I don't consider it cheating as long as the page 
really is about the language in question.

Martin

[1] http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
[2] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Ada.html
[3] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Ruby.html
[4] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/D.html