Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-07 Thread Erik Beugelaar via use-livecode
In my working life as an ict-engineer it was most of the times Microsoft related, so starting with Visual Basic 6/SQL Server decades ago and ending up with .NET/C# nowadays not to mention the SharePoint (365) and BizTalk implementations... But I must say I have only worked for companies who

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-06 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 10/6/19 10:49 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: As JB already posted earlier, TIOBE publishes their definition on this page, linked to from near the top of the Index page:    https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definition/ Wot, no DuckDuckGo? -- Mark

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
For the many questions that have arisen regarding TIOBE's methodology: As a general rule, I ignore any ranking or polling publisher who doesn't disclose their methodology. Thankfully TIOBE is not among those. As JB already posted earlier, TIOBE publishes their definition on this page, linked

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-06 Thread Jjs via use-livecode
Well in terms of jobs here in NL, most asked is Java, PHP, JavaScript,C++,SQL and a few others. The rest almost never. Richmond via use-livecode schreef op 6 oktober 2019 08:37:13 CEST: > > >On 6.10.19 1:59, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: >> On 10/5/19 3:36 PM, Richard Gaskin via

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-06 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
On 6.10.19 1:59, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 10/5/19 3:36 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: But this month LC broke new ground: For the first time since I've been tracking TIOBE, LC IS NOW IN THE UPPER 50, ranked as the 49th most popular language:

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On Oct 5, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: What did we knock out of place to get there? Maybe it's all those new FM people searching for LC information. From what I saw, they are enthusiastic and word gets around. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-05 Thread Terry Judd via use-livecode
Given that the rankings are based on search query frequencies and that Google searches seem to be the biggest contributor to the data they use I wonder why they don’t just do a series of Google Trends searches to come up with the relative rankings? Terry... Sent from my iPad > On 6 Oct 2019,

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-05 Thread JB via use-livecode
Well you know searches could be based on many different factors. If a programming language does things in such a way it needs a lot of different examples to really explain it all and LiveCode allows the user to do it easier then the search results would not be a good judge of how easy it is to

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 10/5/19 4:57 PM, JB via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mark, I just visited the link Richard provided and it shows the following; Hah! I missed a very important word in that sentence. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-05 Thread JB via use-livecode
Hi Mark, I just visited the link Richard provided and it shows the following; It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written. The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

2019-10-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 10/5/19 3:36 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: But this month LC broke new ground: For the first time since I've been tracking TIOBE, LC IS NOW IN THE UPPER 50, ranked as the 49th most popular language: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Great news!, I think... note that the