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Please don't use the TIOBE index as a measure of language popularity. It's trash. [Disclaimer: I love Python and if anything, it's more popular than TIOBE indi

by eliben 14y ago

Please don't use the TIOBE index as a measure of language popularity. It's trash. [Disclaimer: I love Python and if anything, it's more popular than TIOBE indicates. This comment expresses an opinion about TIOBE, not Python]

aviraldg 14y ago
BASIC is more popular than JavaScript on it O.O
- mertd 14y ago
  Ratings The ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines. The search query that is used is +"<language> programming" I wonder why BASIC is so popular :)
  - pyre 14y ago
    I know. I feel like such a rube when people ask if I have the BASIC programming fundamentals down, and I have to answer, "No." ;-)
  - pmelendez 14y ago
    Funny thing... that has a bias over syntax complexity of the language, easier to pick (and IMO better quality) languages wouldn't require to google about features that often. No wonder why Java is the first.
    - deleted 14y ago
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    - pyre 14y ago
      They are using "number of searches people initiate," but "number of hits in the search engine." I would think that the number of hits in the search engine wouldn't be a function of how often one is required to Google for an answer.
  - jonathansizz 14y ago
    I think I'll design a new language called 'computer'