On 09/15/2011 01:48 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
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.
Scala's ranking is nothing but irrelevant for this discussion. The fact
Andrei was sharing is that the D programming language is in a
significantly better position than the D programming language one year ago.
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.
What about the fact that D entered the top 20 at TIOBE is misinformation?
