Re: TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2007

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

Markus E L schrieb:
> Martin Krischik 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?
>>
>> On a lighter side: Visual-Basic overtook C++ ?!?
>>
> 
> 
> "The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled
> engineers, courses and third party vendors."

That's the logical description. Physically it is done 'by counting hits
of the most popular search engines. The search query that is used is
+"<language> programming" '

One problem we face is that "most popular" now excludes usenet and
google-groups :-(. See:

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/tpci_definition.htm

> That might explain a lot: C++ programmers are presently much in
> demand, VB programmers are getting phased out. that the index
> basically measures (partially, at least) is unemployment.

Well it's more a measurer of:

<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="XXX programming">

Martin

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