This reminds me a of a joke: A boss walks into the accountant's office and asks, "How is the data looking?". To which the accountant replied, "How would you lik

This reminds me a of a joke: A boss walks into the accountant's office and asks, "How is the data looking?". To which the accountant replied, "How would you like it to look?" And reminds me of the Hillary Clinton primary campaign on how it kept redefining "winning". Sadly, the methods are very stupid (see http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d... ). They use YouTube as a search engine (eh?) when something more specialized like DZone or SourceForge or even delicious would be better. They use only one query and counting mentions of it, hardly a measure of real-world popularity. Some better metrics: number of new projects written in a language. Number of servers hosting sites written in a language. Anything really. Google hit counts doesn't cut it.