Re^2: Tiobe language index

The Tiobe index is sort of like the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It's largely irrelevant except that it has lots and lots of historical data points. So all other measures you can think of are shorter term.

I agree that javascript would be top dog in terms of language use. It is 100% ubiquitous. In a lot of ways, javascript was able to deliver on a promise made by java to 'write once, run anywhere'.

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Re^3: Tiobe language index by davido (Cardinal) on Feb 10, 2016 at 04:15 UTC
This is a good point, but the DJIA has booted out one stock and replaced it with another about 50 times during its history. It does this when an existing stock is deemed to no longer be sufficiently representative of the type of tracking the DJIA intended to maintain, and another is found that is a better representation of the DJIA's mission. Tiobe may also update their data set from time to time, but if they do, they've somehow allowed it to lose relevancy anyway. Dave	[reply]

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Re^3: Tiobe language index
by davido (Cardinal) on Feb 10, 2016 at 04:15 UTC

This is a good point, but the DJIA has booted out one stock and replaced it with another about 50 times during its history. It does this when an existing stock is deemed to no longer be sufficiently representative of the type of tracking the DJIA intended to maintain, and another is found that is a better representation of the DJIA's mission.

Tiobe may also update their data set from time to time, but if they do, they've somehow allowed it to lose relevancy anyway.

Dave

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