The top 10 is annoying me, I used to be able to claim to know all of them, then Objective-C crops up which I have no use for. Maybe I can get TIOBE to tweak it out of existence.
As a half-joke, I was once writing a blog post about what Scala would need to do to leapfrog the language above it on the index, but didn't finish it before the index changed again.. It's currently awk, which is nigh-on unbeatable in its niche but I suppose it could be fun to add a DSL emulating it. :) In the same vein, what does Java have to do to retake the lead from C? I vote for unsigned types, (typesafe) unions and function pointers. Ricky. -- Skype: ricky_clarkson On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:55 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Cedric, those divisions make sense in reality, but the only way I can get > them from the tiobe survey is to read the numbers in octal and group by > order of magnitude. > :) > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Cédric Beust ♔" <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 3:08 pm > Subject: [The Java Posse] C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Alex Turner" <[email protected]> > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:00 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I think top 10 in Tiobe seems reasonable. After that I am skeptical. >> > > Agreed. I think TIOBE allows us to get a rough feeling for > > - Mainstream languages (top 5?) > - Marginal languages (6-10?) > - Niche languages (11+) > > Obviously, the cut off points between each category can move around. > > -- > Cédric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
