From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a400c434a8f90e5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.ip-plus.net!newsfeed.ip-plus.net!news.post.ch!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: TIOBE Programming Community Index Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:27:31 +0100 Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom) Message-ID: <45f51d03$1@news.post.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.41.146.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: atlas.ip-plus.net 1173691661 24 194.41.146.1 (12 Mar 2007 09:27:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:27:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w01iwt.pnet.ch X-Original-Trace: 12 Mar 2007 10:27:31 +0200, w01iwt.pnet.ch Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14470 Date: 2007-03-12T10:27:31+01:00 List-Id: 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