On 09/12/2011 01:38 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On 09/12/2011 11:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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.
D is prone to overcounting because it's common name matches lots of
unrelated stuff, including things like 3-D programming. The Tiobe folks
can't be counted on to come up with an accurate measure to filter it
out. The latest spike could be for any number of reasons. You might as
well be reading tea leaves.
People were scoffing at Scala at number #50, but in my experience it's
just as mainstream than D is, and very likely much more. Want some
stats? Martin's book on Amazon is #17,254. Andrei's book is #159,672.
There are over a dozen Scala books on the market. Stack overflow shows
5,606 tagged with "scala", and 430 questions tagged with "d".
Lame marketing, Andrei. But hey, it works, right?
I have no connection with Tiobe and the name "D" wasn't chosen to
manipulate its ranking method. Are you disagreeing with my posting of a
piece of information on a community-voted forum? I wouldn't quite
understand what the matter is here, if it weren't for your posting history.
Thanks,
Andrei
