This kind of view is nice as a joke, but I also think it tends to be counter productive. We should not kid ourselves. There are so many books because there is a market large enough to consume them.
Cheers, Doru On 6 Dec 2010, at 13:44, Igor Stasenko wrote: > 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. > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Presenting is storytelling."
