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Re:Scala Less Popular Than COBOL: Programming In The Real World on Friday April 27, 2012 @02:48PM (#3900543)
Agreed. TIOBE is only a part of gauging a language's popularity. TIOBE looks at the results of search engines regardless of the recency of the search results. So older languages will obviously have more sticking power. I like to look at current job offerings, google trends, and book trends along with TIOBE when gauging a language's popularity.
Re: on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:35PM (#3778202)
Seriously? This makes it to hacker news front page?