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Saying that "TIOBE rankings are at least the best system we currently have" for gauging uptake of a programming language is like saying that astrology is the be

• thisrod 15y ago
  It would be interesting - but a lot of work - to add "time to modify" and "time to debug" metrics. Each task would come with a modification, and an error to make in implementing the original task. You'd recruit undergraduates, who hadn't used the language before. Some would be given the original program to modify, others the broken version to fix. You'd measure how long they took to do it. This way, language communities that gamed the machine benchmarks would pay a price on the human ones.
  • derleth 15y ago
    Yes, because untrained undergraduates are the programming workforce in every industry, especially aerospace and medical device makers.
    • Roboprog 15y ago
      Hello, "Enterprise"? Beam me up, there's no intelligent life here.