FWIW, it rates us as #14, and on the verge of becoming mainstream. The statistics are a bit dubious (since it's a measure of "buzz"/hype rather than anything concrete), but it certainly helps to justify use of D.

Don Clugston wrote:
> FWIW, it rates us as #14, and on the verge of becoming mainstream. The statistics are a bit dubious (since it's a measure of "buzz"/hype rather than anything concrete), but it certainly helps to justify use of D.

D has had a spectacular rise there, but the headlines just mention Ruby :-(

"Walter Bright" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:eio4ql$1gvm$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> D has had a spectacular rise there, but the headlines just mention Ruby :-(

Phhht!  D's not even in the "language of the year" runners-up.  But SAS is? I don't even know what the language is.  It's a racket, I tell you.  ;)

>
>> D has had a spectacular rise there, but the headlines just mention Ruby :-(
>
> Phhht!  D's not even in the "language of the year" runners-up.  But SAS is? I don't even know what the language is.  It's a racket, I tell you. ;)

Would it really be great for D to rise even faster? like getting 5% in a few
months?
I'm not really into making languages :D, but even a simple thing like
network load (>dsource)...
... overpopulated newsgroups, with maybe different expectations.
Just interested in how you think about this.

== Quote from nobody_ (spam@spam.spam)'s article
> Would it really be great for D to rise even faster? like getting 5% in
> a few months? I'm not really into making languages :D, but even a
> simple thing like network load (>dsource)...
> ... overpopulated newsgroups, with maybe different expectations.
> Just interested in how you think about this.

I hear you, hitting way up there before 1.0 might be a "bad thing".

Walter Bright wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, it rates us as #14, and on the verge of becoming mainstream. The statistics are a bit dubious (since it's a measure of "buzz"/hype rather than anything concrete), but it certainly helps to justify use of D.
> 
> D has had a spectacular rise there, but the headlines just mention Ruby :-(

Note that Ruby before RoRails was nearly unknown even if it is a very interesting language in itself.

Of course Ruby is a very different language with a very different target so what was true for Ruby is not necessarily true for D..


That said Tiobe is weird: SAS? ABAP?
Never heard about them.

Regards,
RenoX

renox wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>

> That said Tiobe is weird: SAS? ABAP?
> Never heard about them.

I pretty sure SAS is a proprietary programming language/system for statistics.  Something like Matlab, but specifically for statistics.

--bb