I'm not a big fan of C# but I have to agree. Even in the TIOBE index it may only have ~4% but that still makes it the _7th most popular language_. He ends up

I'm not a big fan of C# but I have to agree. Even in the TIOBE index it may only have ~4% but that still makes it the _7th most popular language_. He ends up with Scala, which according to TIOBE is 27th with 0.433%. Interesting read, but clearly this is making the solution fit the data more than the other way around on the original author's part.