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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: TIOBE Programming Community Index
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:46:59 +0100
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Gautier schrieb:

>> 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.
> 
> Probably it would be biasing against the language L (whatever) if nobody 
> hacked the index for that language...

The Index is about *current* popularity and if no advocate for L is 
there to hack the index then L is not popular. Might be sad news for L 
but that's the way it is.

And this is true for L=Ada as well, hence my reminder.

Note that even Tiobe once mentioned a language community which had a 
plan to increase there ranking.

Martin