Go figure

http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

"BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:ce0a3343c8558c9a633a411c9fc@news.digitalmars.com...
> Go figure
>
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
>

Maybe everything ahead of it lost even _more_ ground ;)

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:ce0a3343c8558c9a633a411c9fc@news.digitalmars.com...
>> Go figure
>>
>> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
>>
> 
> Maybe everything ahead of it lost even _more_ ground ;) 

At least D has now edged out Delphi!!!

BCS wrote:
> Go figure
> 
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
> 
> 
>

It must be the sub-prime market ;)

Wow, Lua is moving fast, 20th to 15th.  At least D is ahead of Delphi now :)

Jarrett Billingsley wrote

> Maybe everything ahead of it lost even _more_ ground ;)

Not confirmed!

If the time horizon of 12 month and monthly measuring, as shown by tiobe, is adequate, then the following holds:

For none of the top ten languages, except Perl, the hypothesis can be falsified, that the measured values conform to a normal distribution.

Perl had a high plateau for 8 month, but lowered to the former niveau.


Notes:
1) The top ten languages hold roughly 80% of the "activity" shown by
tiobe. Seems that the 80:20-rule holds.
2) The least in the top ten, ruby, holds roughly 3% of the "activity".
Seems that the "no worth under 3% market share"-rule holds too.

I.e. all "activities" below 3% share might be equivalent to brownian movement which might mask itself as an uprise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brownian_hierarchical.png


-manfred

http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm