Re: TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2007

[anon@anon.org (anon)]

Means nothing!  

The rating as states is based on search engines. At the beginning of 
classes students are searching for sites to find help.  After a month 
most have them the links and are no longer searching. So, the rating 
drops.  A better check will be after the final exam and before the next 
class begins.

And most working programmers including Ada programmers will search 
privately before deciding to change job. If they find one then the family 
finds out as the boss receive his 2-week notice. Others use local or 
national paid job services which TIOBE does not have access to. And a 
small number will use word of mouth, from friend, which TIOBE will 
never have access to. Other use "Hotjob", "monster", "careerbuilder", 
or etc. which searches decreases at the beginning though the mid of the 
school term but increase at the end as the grads start to become a 
honest tax payer.

So, I would not hold too much stock in TIOBE rating system, says.

In <1779892.Lp74q3fGR4@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>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++ ?!?
>
>Martin
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