Re: RPG on the Tiobe Index

Do people still read books to learn languages?

Mike E.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Hans Boldt <hans@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve Richter wrote:

here is another measure of language popularity - computer book sales
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/03/state-of-the-computer-book-mar-23.html

I think Steve found a much better indicator of the popularity of
programming languages. Book sales are well known and represent people
laying out hard-earned dollars in proportion to their interest in the
language.

TIOBE readily acknowledge the limitations of their ranking method.
Clearly, a Google search is a rather blunt statistical instrument, and
when you're dealing with languages in the sub-one-percent range, any
fluctuations can potentially have major effects. My suspicion is that,
although they try to filter out "role playing games", their hits count
for RPG still contains a large number of false positives.

Cheers! Hans

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