TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
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Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#2So Scala ranks behind the Lego Mindstorms language and Visual FoxPro in terms of community popularity? Sure thing. I know that valid results don't always conform to expectations, anecdotal evidence and intuition; there's a believability limit, though, which is being crossed here. TIOBE may be measuring its thing correctly, but in that case it's measuring the wrong thing.
Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#3Yes, and in other news:
While Aquarius is in the Seventh House of the Principal Equinox and Jupiter is aligned with Mercury and Thor is napping in the Trunk of a Ford Pinto, Java shall tremble at the Sight of the Blood running down the walls of Fear, for Clojure shall overcome Mindstorms when the Adjudicated Maximus crosses the Greater Chaotic Plane, and BOFH's everywhere shall rejoice! Ia, Ia!!! Chtulu Fthagn!!
(IOW, no, I don't put much stock in the Tiobe index.)
Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#4fuck yeah
Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#5So Scala ranks behind the Lego Mindstorms language and Visual FoxPro in terms of community popularity? Sure thing. I know that valid results don't always conform to expectations, anecdotal evidence and intuition; there's a believability limit, though, which is being crossed here. TIOBE may be measuring its thing correctly , but in that case it's measuring the wrong thing.
It would strongly violate my expectations for Scala to be more popular than LabVIEW (which is NOT just "the Lego Mindstorms language") or Visual FoxPro.
The "community" they're measuring is not the HN community, which is not even close to a representative sample of engineers worldwide.
Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#6Their methodology is suspect as hell:
"TIOBE Programming Community Index is an indicator of the programming language trends. It is updated monthly, this list is based on the number of experienced programmers,courses and third-party vendors on the Internet. It uses the well-known search engines (such as Google, MSN, Yahoo) as well as Wikipedia and YouTube to calculate the ranking."
Frankly that doesn't sound like a proper method to determine a ranking of anything, let alone programming languages.
Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#7I'm curious to know what has happened in the VB.Net community that has encouraged such a huge shift upwards.
Has Windows 8 dropping on the scene encouraged this?
Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#8Yes, and in other news: While Aquarius is in the Seventh House of the Principal Equinox and Jupiter is aligned with Mercury and Thor is napping in the Trunk of a Ford Pinto, Java shall tremble at the Sight of the Blood running down the walls of Fear, for Clojure shall overcome Mindstorms when the Adjudicated Maximus crosses the Greater Chaotic Plane, and BOFH's everywhere shall rejoice! Ia, Ia!!! Chtulu Fthagn!! (IOW…
Right on. We all know C has always been the big one :)
Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#9A bit of the ole Ralph Nadar effect going on here, I presume. Java's share is being cannibalized by Groovy, Scala, Clojure, etc. They should start making a JVM ranking to start consolidating all those languages.
Re: TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
#10Excuse my apparent ignorance, but people are still programming in C?
Why? On which fields? Is there something C can do better than Java or C#?