Re: Warning -OT

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:13:13 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sZGaOeq-AL0a6jMFhg5V6G3SvBgXtqxj3Sog=y++MgEog_at_mail.gmail.com>

I've never been a big fan of that set of data - the method seems somewhat dubious and the results don't give me a great deal of confidence - ADA is generally more popular than PL/SQL for example in all of the web search based indexes.
Human languages definitely are worth more than programming languages IMO.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Yong Huang <yong321_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> If you would like to go with the most popular language, of all programming
> language popularity measurements (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_programming_language_popularity),
> I like to use this one:
>
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>
> especially the "Long term trends" showing historical curves. So you know
> Perl has been declining all the time since 2005 and Python has caught up.
>
> Of course to preserve the gray matter, no doctor has prescribed a
> programming language. They would suggest a human language instead, such as
> German or Latin as Chris said. But I suppose a programming language will
> generate the same cerebral stimulus.
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