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Please, please, stop with this TIOBE nonsense. This index is a joke - can't someone with a burning desire for a weekend project create an open-sourced index website and engage with other hackers to incrementally improve it?


The Transparent Language Popularity Index is an opensource alternative: http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/


People are still using Eiffeil and Overon? All the other results I believe (Even clipper and module-2), but that is a bridge too far.


It's used to teach CS undergrads programming basics at ETH Zürich. At least a few years ago ...


Not surprised since Overon was invented there...


It's called Oberon!


Thanks!


LangPop.com is a lot better than TIOBE, but I'm not sure about open sourcing it... I'd kind of like to sell it for a bit of money and get out of running it (which I haven't actually been doing much of lately).

The one thing I can't stand about TIOBE is not the index itself - it is what it is - but the breathless announcements about so and so overtaking this or that, like it's a horse race.


But why bother to improve it?

Why is the question of "What programming language is most popular" one that needs an answer?




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