From: "Esteban Manchado Velázquez" <zoso@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T06:57:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Philosophy

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:05:25AM +0900, Premshree Pillai wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:46:53 +0900, gabriele renzi
> <rff_rff@remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
> > Premshree Pillai ha scritto:
> > > Measuring a language's performance is a difficult task. ML posts and suchlike.
> > >
> > > TIOBE software maintains a language popularity index at
> > > http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm Language popularity indices are not
> > > accurate, but they give an idea.
> > 
> > The tiobe index system is (in my little worth opinion) strange in many
> > ways, or I just never understood it (wich is quite possible).
> > Could someone explain me the query they are using? what does:
> >   +"<language> programming" -tv
> 
> No idea what this "-tv" option is. I think I should ask the TIOBE
> folks. IAC, the Tiobe index might seem strange and all, but don't you
> think in most cases it seems to depict things correctly.

   Perhaps it's just a way to try to filter out TV programming (as opposed to
computer programming). Just in case there is a TV program about snakes and
Python gets more points, or something like that ;-)

   Regards,

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