On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jeff Nowakowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Well, apologizes. I didn't mean to set you off. I have to say though, I still don't fully understand why so many would down vote such a news (or whatever you wish to call it). Sure, there may be some who down voted because of TIOBE, but I wonder how many down voted because they don't wish to see D gain any level of popularity or simply because they don't like D?
