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> TIOBE and StackOverflow have different ideas of what a programming language is. To be fair, the StackOverflow survey used explicitly concerns "programming, s
by Karellen 3y ago
> TIOBE and StackOverflow have different ideas of what a programming language is.
To be fair, the StackOverflow survey used explicitly concerns "programming, scripting, and markup languages", whereas TIOBE specifically refers only to "programming languages", and they explain how they define programming languages.[0]
Also, I suspect that if StackOverflow were to separate out programming, scripting and markup languages, HTML would be placed into the "markup language" category rather than the "programming language" category. Mostly due to its lack of Turing-completeness, which is one of the TIOBE criteria.
[0] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...