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Re:Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type ... by nindalf on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:04PM (#24039478)
Two things - TIOBE is meaningless. And secondly, Perl is a valid example, but so is Python. After a 10 year painful transition, Python is more popular than ever. It's used more than any other language bar Javascript.
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Re:Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type ... by hota_mazi on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:47PM (#24040944)
> Two things - TIOBE is meaningless.

Pick any other language survey of your choice and I guarantee you it will generally agree with the TIOBE.

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Re:Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type ... by rumanator on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:19PM (#24044659)
Agree with what? TIOBE is just a vague measure of online chatter. I mean, right now TIOBE's site has a section on how Go, Swift, and SQL are tied. What is there to agree with? I mean, you can add "burrito" to TIOBE and the result would be just as meaningful.
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Re:Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type ... by dgellow on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:25AM (#24048209)
That's maybe a good name for a successful programming language :) TIOBE driven design is the future!
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Re:Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type ... by coliveira on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:52PM (#24044907)
That may be true about Python, but despite of the horrible transition from 2 to 3. That transition is a source of frustration to anyone who had to maintain code across the versions 2 and 3.
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Re:Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type ... by pjmlp on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:18PM (#24040543)
Not really, plenty of MBA type managers use it as a measure to allow for language adoption on their projects.
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