Re: Perl "Going the way of the dinosaur"

In article <20080125104410.GA21163@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Tim Bunce
<Tim.Bunce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:00:26PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote:


>   http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
> 
> It's a pity they don't offer more information about their methodology.

They do:

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

It's simple search result counting for "foo programming", with no
attempt to deal with duplicates.

You'll notice they have a big disclaimer about their change in April
2004 when Google adjusted their search rankings. Since they are just
using the number of search results without looking at content, it's
just wanking with numbers.