From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T07:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Philosophy

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 06:57:53 +0900, Esteban Manchado Vel�zquez
<zoso@foton.es> wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Yes, you're right. I racked my brain trying to figure out what that
"option" meant. #-o

> 
>    Regards,
> 
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