On 09/12/2011 07:11 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
If you were in my position, wouldn't you have posted that
article?
I hope I wouldn't have published it, since I don't like misleading
marketing.
BTW, apparently others comment on the news, too.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/objective-c-c-d-language-winners-in-programming-popularity-172587.
Then he doesn't know better about the problems with Tiobe. You do, or at
least you should. D originally fell out of the top 20 because it
plummeted after Tiobe actually started applying a tiny bit of care to
their stats. You also acknowledged in the reddit thread that you thought
Tiobe was meaningless -- that is, until D hit the front page. Smiley or
not, I'll take that at face value given the context.
Too bad, you missed out on a good joke. Feigning lack of a sense of
humor for the sake of appearing self-righteous is a losing gambit as a
sense of humor indicates intelligence.
Andrei
