On 09/14/2011 07:23 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
As interpreted by Mr. Nowakowski, it's misleading to say that D is good because some objective language popularity measurement shows D is gaining ground.
Tiobe is not objective. There is a "manually determined confidence factor", and also some arbitrary numbers like "The first 100 pages per search engine are checked for possible false positives and this is used to define the confidence factor."
This explains why D is ranked so much higher than Scala, despite other statistics that show the reverse. A lot of the early hits about D and programming may actually be about D, but that doesn't mean all the rest will be. Because D is so common, you're going to start getting junk results the further out you go.
I say, that's just normal marketing. Even if it's not a true accurate measurement, it is a report somebody published, and why not take advantage of it?
Because you have some integrity?
