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 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2007 References: <1779892.Lp74q3fGR4@linux1.krischik.com> From: Markus E L Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:09:29 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2RwDaKHlG1Ipt1+QCuT6yoK2oic= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.74.34.225 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1194210193 88.74.34.225 (4 Nov 2007 22:03:13 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18183 Date: 2007-11-04T22:09:29+01:00 List-Id: 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 might explain a lot: C++ programmers are presently much in demand, VB programmers are getting phased out. Ehat the index basically measures (partially, at least) is unemployment. Just an idea ;-). Regards -- Markus