[sf-perl] perl popularity, TIOBE index

Jonathan Swartz swartz at pobox.com
Thu May 12 14:07:20 PDT 2011


There's a lot on the net about how flawed TIOBE is. But I haven't heard of anything much more useful either.

Here's one starting point:

http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/04/12/tiobe-or-not-tiobe-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/


On May 12, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Philip J. Hollenback wrote:

> I'm interested in hearing what people think of the TIOBE programming
> community index:
> 
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
> 
> If their analysis is valid (I have no idea) then the long-term prospects
> for perl developers look poor.
> 
> P.
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