From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T21:08:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby climbed up to the 13th place in the Tiobe index

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quoth the Robert Dober:
> On 8/13/06, zoat <enogrob@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > In blitz interview with Bruce Tate, he says that does not know, use, or
> > has an opinion on the Ruby language yet. But since this language
> > climbed up to the 13th place in the Tiobe index, it deserves to be
> > taken seriously.
> > Tiobe Index
> > http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
> > Blitz Interview: Can Ruby Live Without Rails?
> > http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/251986.htm
>
> I just do not like these kind of ratings, I believe that they are
> manipulatory, defending the interest of certain persons/lobbies and are
> often very biased.
> Am I wrong on this one?

Well, I don't know about the rankings being controlled by anyones interests=
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this page:
 http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
states the rankings are based on search engine hits, which I really don't=20
think is a useful metric for anything but anecdotal evidence. The=20
whole 'status' ranking however does seem somewhat arbitrary, even after=20
reading the description of it.
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> I would appreciate any point of view.
> On one hand the site claims to define the ranking on available knowledge
> acceptance etc. OTH it does not give any definition of cretira and uses
> terms like Status that do not seem to be defined anywhere.
> Enough to make a notorious pessimist very, very sceptic about it. :(

Yeah, I wouldn't put too much stock in it...about as useful as a googlefigh=
t!

> Cheers
> Robert

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