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Subject: Re: TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2007
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:29:58 -0500
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> You, I don't like the index, but it is there, widely used 

What data do you have to back up the assertion that it is "widely
used"?

As a counter point, this is the first I've heard of it.

> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

It says:

    Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming
    language or the language in which most lines of code have been
    written.

So why should we care?

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