On 12.09.2011 17:43, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 9/12/11 10:19 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On 09/11/2011 10:28 PM, Caligo wrote:
I don't understand why some would down vote such a news. a lot of
haters out
there I suppose.
Probably because Tiobe is a piece of shit when it comes to accuracy, so
crowing about your "top 20" Tiobe number brings out the hate for lame
marketing.
Accuracy (i.e. figuring the "right" ranking) is probably indeed low, but
Tiobe's methods are a reasonable proxy for a language's presence. I see
the increase of D's Tiobe rank not as a surprise or some random
artifact, but a reflection of the strong progress in the past months.
Andrei
If you look at the graph, it's clear that about half of the increase
relative to last month is just a noise spike. D will drop out of the top
20 next month. Nonetheless there does seem to be a small yet continuous
upwards trend; it should be reliably in the top 20 within six months time.
