On 6 December 2010 13:38, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> wrote:
> JAjajaja,
>
> It's not that Indexes are not trustable...  They are measured in a way
> Smalltalk will never be recognized as popular:
>
> - searches in yahoo
> - open source projects in some webs
> - people asking for job
>
> The only one that surprized me is the book's one.  But
> 1) the data is not taken from amazon and I don't know this Powell's Books
> library :P.
> 2) It's true that there is a stupid amount of java, c#, c++ books...
>

i think there is a lot of books because they are very complex ones :)
for a smalltalk, you need just one book, and .. whooop .. you know it
after few days of study.
For C++ or Java it takes couple of months to learn all this stuff..


> Maybe we can think a not so stupid index.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:12 AM, laurent laffont <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> And I've just seen the bottom of the message :), it
>> seems http://langpop.com/ agree with TIOBE.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:09 AM, laurent laffont
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:51 AM, James Ladd <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> While pleading for Smalltalk support with a developer from a popular and
>>>> great IDE company, I got the
>>>>
>>>> following response (below)
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything I can do/show to prove or disprove the popularity of
>>>> Smalltalk?
>>>
>>> According to TIOBE, Smalltalk is as popular as Erlang and more popular
>>> than Scala http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>> But that's only numbers and I don't trust it :)
>>> May be your developer from a "popular" IDE company should define what
>>> "popular" means...
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rgs, James.
>>>>
>>>> >>Hello James.
>>>>
>>>> >>About Smalltalk plugin. Weel, I’m not sure Smalltalk has a big
>>>> >> audience now. I’ve never heard about commercial products based on 
>>>> >> Smalltalk.
>>>> >>Here, some statistics http://langpop.com/
>>
>
>



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