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

Walter Bright Wrote:

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

Congratulations!

Just one question. I note that one of the aspects the index is based on is the availability of courses and professional engineers. This could be read to imply that there are now a significant number of training courses and commercial projects being developed in D. Is this the case (I've had my head in the sand for a bit)?
I would have thought there was still more Delphi and (though it sickens me) more COBOL floating around in the real world (tm).

Walter Bright schreef:
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

Can this really be taken seriously?

I'm all for D, of course, but Delphi is still huge! Up until two years ago, I was still thought Delphi at my university (before they finally switched to C#). When raising D in a conversation, the response is usually "Huh?", or the annoyingly unwitty "And I can write in [E-Z]!".

I realize this is based on rough search queries. But I'm trying to decide whether this can actually represent some improvement or should be shrugged off completely.

- -- Stéphan

On 10/7/07, Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
>

While we're talking about publicity, I saw in the October issue of the Swedish computer magazine Datormagazin that they will feature D in the next issue, which is really cool and might bring more Swedish people into the D world :D

Anders

Anders Bergh wrote:
> While we're talking about publicity, I saw in the October issue of the
> Swedish computer magazine Datormagazin that they will feature D in the
> next issue, which is really cool and might bring more Swedish people
> into the D world :D

When it comes out, please announce it here!

Bruce Adams wrote:
> Just one question. I note that one of the aspects the index is based
> on is the availability of courses and professional engineers. This
> could be read to imply that there are now a significant number of
> training courses and commercial projects being developed in D. Is
> this the case (I've had my head in the sand for a bit)? I would have
> thought there was still more Delphi and (though it sickens me) more
> COBOL floating around in the real world (tm).
> 

The Tiobe index measures something more like recent 'buzz' than anything else. There might be more Delphi code floating around, but I just don't see much buzz/excitement/interest about it anymore.

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Bruce Adams wrote:
> > Just one question. I note that one of the aspects the index is based on is the availability of courses and professional engineers. This could be read to imply that there are now a significant number of training courses and commercial projects being developed in D. Is this the case (I've had my head in the sand for a bit)? I would have thought there was still more Delphi and (though it sickens me) more COBOL floating around in the real world (tm).
> > 
> 
> The Tiobe index measures something more like recent 'buzz' than anything else. There might be more Delphi code floating around, but I just don't see much buzz/excitement/interest about it anymore.

That means there are still a lot of people excited about COBOL? Shudder. Maybe shuddering in horror counts as excitement?

Stéphan Kochen Wrote:

> When raising D in a conversation, the response is
> usually "Huh?", or the annoyingly unwitty "And I can write in [E-Z]!".
> 
Snap. I share your pain. Still it is our duty to educate.

Bruce Adams wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>> The Tiobe index measures something more like recent 'buzz' than
>> anything else. There might be more Delphi code floating around, but
>> I just don't see much buzz/excitement/interest about it anymore.
> 
> That means there are still a lot of people excited about COBOL?
> Shudder. Maybe shuddering in horror counts as excitement?

Certainly it means there's talk about it in the last 12 months.

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