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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,85b02a301688919 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed-0.progon.net!progon.net!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: Re: TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2007 Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:19:03 +0100 Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom) Message-ID: <472ee027$1@news.post.ch> References: <1779892.Lp74q3fGR4@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.41.146.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: atlas.ip-plus.net 1194254379 12682 194.41.146.1 (5 Nov 2007 09:19:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:19:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w03duo.pnet.ch X-Original-Trace: 5 Nov 2007 10:19:35 +0200, w03duo.pnet.ch Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18189 Date: 2007-11-05T10:19:03+01:00 List-Id: 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 +" 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: Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com