• James Pelcis <jpelcis gmail.com> Mar 17 2006
• BCS <BCS_member pathlink.com> Mar 17 2006
• Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> Mar 17 2006
• Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> Mar 18 2006
• Georg Wrede <georg.wrede nospam.org> Mar 18 2006
• Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> Mar 18 2006
• "Walter Bright" <newshound digitalmars.com> Mar 18 2006
• Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> Mar 17 2006

James Pelcis <jpelcis gmail.com> writes:

As of March 2006, D is in 21st place!  In comparison, this is just short 
of VB.net, despite the major difference in advertising power. Go D!!!

http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index

BCS <BCS_member pathlink.com> writes:

James Pelcis wrote:
 As of March 2006, D is in 21st place!  In comparison, this is just short 
 of VB.net, despite the major difference in advertising power. Go D!!!
 
 http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index


  WOW! Almost on the first page, and there are a lot of big names further down:

Ruby, Fortran, Smalltalk, OCaml, Objective-C 	

Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> writes:

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BCS schrieb am 2006-03-17:
 James Pelcis wrote:
 As of March 2006, D is in 21st place!  In comparison, this is just short 
 of VB.net, despite the major difference in advertising power. Go D!!!
 
 http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index


   WOW! Almost on the first page, and there are a lot of big names further down:

 Ruby, Fortran, Smalltalk, OCaml, Objective-C 	


TIOBE is pretty anglophil.

e.g.: their search critera don't count the many Japanese Ruby pages

In addition "D" isn't a good keyword:
1) mark "D"
2) part "D"
...

Thomas


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Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> writes:

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 BCS schrieb am 2006-03-17:
 James Pelcis wrote:
 As of March 2006, D is in 21st place!  In comparison, this is just short 
 of VB.net, despite the major difference in advertising power. Go D!!!

 http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index



 Ruby, Fortran, Smalltalk, OCaml, Objective-C 	


 TIOBE is pretty anglophil.
 
 e.g.: their search critera don't count the many Japanese Ruby pages
 
 In addition "D" isn't a good keyword:
 1) mark "D"
 2) part "D"
 ...
 
 Thomas
 
 
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They don't just search for D silly, they search for "d programming"

Georg Wrede <georg.wrede nospam.org> writes:

Kyle Furlong wrote:
 Thomas Kuehne wrote:
 
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 BCS schrieb am 2006-03-17:

 James Pelcis wrote:

 As of March 2006, D is in 21st place!  In comparison, this is just 
 short of VB.net, despite the major difference in advertising power. 
 Go D!!!

 http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index


   WOW! Almost on the first page, and there are a lot of big names 
 further down:

 Ruby, Fortran, Smalltalk, OCaml, Objective-C    



 TIOBE is pretty anglophil.

 e.g.: their search critera don't count the many Japanese Ruby pages

 In addition "D" isn't a good keyword:
 1) mark "D"
 2) part "D"
 ...

 Thomas


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 They don't just search for D silly, they search for "d programming"


Just a bit of respect, Kyle, please.

Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> writes:

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Kyle Furlong schrieb am 2006-03-18:
 Thomas Kuehne wrote:
 
 BCS schrieb am 2006-03-17:
 James Pelcis wrote:
 As of March 2006, D is in 21st place!  In comparison, this is just short 
 of VB.net, despite the major difference in advertising power. Go D!!!

 http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index



 Ruby, Fortran, Smalltalk, OCaml, Objective-C 	


 TIOBE is pretty anglophil.
 
 e.g.: their search critera don't count the many Japanese Ruby pages
 
 In addition "D" isn't a good keyword:
 1) mark "D"
 2) part "D"
 ...
 


 They don't just search for D silly, they search for "d programming"


I didn't say their data is flawed - just be careful when interpreting
the data(as with every other statistic).

1) "programming ... -tv"
* due to "programming" only English pages will be found
* only pages that aren't served from a .TV domain will be found

2) "programming <language> ..."
* false hits vary by "<language>"
+ "programming ruby": no significant amount of false positives
+ "programming Java": includes all software shops in Java(the location)
+ "programming C/D": lot's of false positives(truck loads of programming
documentation, talking about CS grades, ...)

3) Well documented OpenSource and academic projects have a much larger
online presents that links "programming" and "<language>" than
commercial and in-house software.

I'll stop here, but there are several other points that have to be
considered while analyzing the TIOBE data.

Thomas


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"Walter Bright" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"Thomas Kuehne" <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> wrote in message 
news:tk4se3-c78.ln1 birke.kuehne.cn...
 In addition "D" isn't a good keyword:
 1) mark "D"
 2) part "D"
 ...


It's as good as the "C" keyword <g> 

Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> writes:

James Pelcis wrote:
 As of March 2006, D is in 21st place!  In comparison, this is just short 
 of VB.net, despite the major difference in advertising power. Go D!!!
 
 http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index


What's tiobe rating? How valid is it?