BCS wrote:
Reply to Georg,
D made the May headline on Tiobe: "Programming language D suffers
sharp fall". You can say that again, D went down 5 places, to below
languges like RPG(OS/400) and ABAP!
D's loss seems unbelievable. D now has a 0.628% share, which is even
less than what it's lost (-0.82%) in the last 12 months. What could be
the reasons for it? Is it even possible to figure out any reason??
Can this loss induce people to abandon D, and others to not take it
up, leading to cumulating losses in the coming months? What do we have
to do to prevent this?
take a look at the graph for RPG(OS/400) and D
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/RPG_(OS_400).html
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/D.html
something/someone is gameing the system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abap
Tears and grief, RPG(OS/400) is a language for *punch cards*. And ABAP
is Gerry's answer to *COBOL*. And Finland just lost to the *USA* in
hockey, right after we beat Canada.
Jansen (of Tiobe) should probably not go wild adjusting the knobs. It
may erode their credibility. But blaming him doesn't tidy our nest
either. The D landscape in front of the programmer in search of a C++
replacement isn't what it should be. The language is ten years old, but
you'd never guess. (Except from outdated stuff on each website.)
