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Re: [Omaha.pm] [odynug] TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language

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Subject: Re: [Omaha.pm] [odynug] TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 16:35:36 -0500
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On Apr 9, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Jay Hannah wrote:

Perl lost its single-digit status! Bummer! :)

But TIOBE doesn't mean anything. C is not the "No. 1 programming language." All that TIOBE measures is how many times different languages appear in documents on the web. That's it.

You can't reasonably conclude that TIOBE has any sort of indication to a language's popularity in the world.

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