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/ >> > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
