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Re:Lisp Machine Manual (1984) by Jtsummers on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:54PM (#15187056)
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-defi...

The reason those rankings are (mostly) useless is that it's based on search engine hits. An active, effective community that for whatever reason doesn't generate a million and one blog entries a month will not perform as well on the index. This makes it very useful for indicating fads in programming, but not reality.

Re:Lisp Machine Manual (1984) by Jach on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:42PM (#15195057)
There's also http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2017/03/17/language-rankings-1-17... which uses # pull requests on github with # of tags on Stack Overflow. Another biased methodology for sure, but it paints a different picture.