OK, let's see some further explanation.
Some people always come up with the question which language is better?
The standard answer to this is that it depends on what do you want to solve.
In reality, when a CTO or someone high enough in the corporate hierarchy has to decide
which programming language to use for a certain task there are a number of questions
he will take in account. A few of them are here:
- How much does the language fit the task (domain fitness)?
- How familiar he is with the language?
- Are the current employees familiar with the language ?
- Are they already using it in the organisation?
- How easy it is to find programmers in that language?
- How popular the language (how easy it is to find support etc.)
- ...
There are all kinds of tools to measure some of these. Non of them really good.
This one might be as good as TIOBE in indicating how many people with some knowladge
in language X are out there and are somehow connected with some
virtual business community. That is connected to people higher up in the corporate ladder. Or even better, how many are ther connected to
me (me being replaced of course by the person searching).
LinkedIn is a social network similar to
Orkut but it is business oriented. It
does not have pictures, you can only initiate connection if you know the
other persons e-mail address and you can only contact people via your connections.
When you are searching the database you can only see people up to 4 hops away.
It seems privacy is an important issue for them.
Those people whom you can reach are called "your network".
While the numbers are more interesting (if at all) relatively to each other,
I display the total size of my network here as a reference point so you can see
the size of the total population. (Of course there are more people registered in LinkedIn,
I think 2 or 3 times more, but I can't see them as they are more than 4 hops away).
- Define "business readiness" - I have no clue what you're referring to.
I felt that the relative number of "XYZ" related people using a business network
has some bearing on how easy it will be to a VC firm or a CTO to find people in that
language. Ina way counting how many people in that language got the "clue", in what they see as the "clue".
- How does your LinkedIn account relate to me?
Not really. Unless you are also a member and are directly connected with me.
- What does this have to do with "how important Perl is for CTOs"?
I think it is related to "If many people in other companies use it then it is ok
to use it"
- What does "My Network" (which is a Windows pseudo-location) have to do with programming languages?
See above. This is the total population I can see in the network.
- What about mixed-language applications? All of my apps are at least tri-lingual ...
Nothing related.
- What do your statistics say re: the question of language domain fitness?
Nothing. this is a separate question. See my points above.
- Why do you have a "language" on your list that isn't Turing complete (SQL)?
Actually I am not sure. I just thought it might be an interesting measurement point to compare to.
Actually I think there are a number of problems with the searches such as Basic as pointed out by shlomif
but even Visual Basic (without quotatin marks) will find entries with the English word basic in them, Perl might
be the name of a person, etc.
It is also problematic as obciously I know more people in Israel than in other places and I know more people with Perl knowladge than COBOL knowladge so "My network" is skewed.
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