On 09/14/2011 05:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
One issue here is that the relative rank of Scala and D on Tiobe has become a straw man. Let's not forget how it started: I posted Tiobe's September newsletter to reddit and you considered it lame marketing. Well I disagree.
It's not a straw man. The only reason the D was even mentioned on Tiobe was because it hit #20. If it was languishing beneath #50 with Scala, which by any measure that aren't bullshit Tiobe statistics it should be, then you would have nothing to post.
The Tiobe thing irked me, but I wasn't even going to say anything until I saw snide comment about Scala at #50 in the reddit thread and Caligo posting here about all the "haters" who downvoted this "news". It's misinformation, not news.
