> Tiobe ranks tend to fluctuate, but that Groovy even broke the top 20 at all is significant The only significance is how easy it is for someone to game the Ti

> Tiobe ranks tend to fluctuate, but that Groovy even broke the top 20 at all is significant The only significance is how easy it is for someone to game the Tiobe algorithms. According to [1]: > Groovy, which turned up in the 18th spot last month, slid back down to a number 32 ranking. "After a long discussion with one of the Tiobe index readers, it turned out that the data that is produced by one of the Chinese sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. So this was a bug," Janssen said. "After we had fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings." The ratings slip takes Groovy from a 0.658 percent rating last month to 0.393 percent this month. In April 2011, Groovy fell from #25 to #65 in a single month when something similar occurred. I suspect both now and then, someone was just priming up Groovy in the rankings to win a consulting contract for Pivotal. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-away-java-among-top-programming-languages-230603 http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-a...