Re: Lua enters Tiobe top 50

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Andy Stark a écrit :
> Just been to the Tiobe website:-
>
> 	http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index
>
> ...and their headline for October is "Lua enters the top 50."
>
> In case you haven't heard of this before, it's an index of the most
> popular languages as determined by the number of web resources available.
> Lua has been hovering somewhere in the top 100 for a while now (with
> roughly the same prominence as things like Boo and Dylan) but it has now
> entered the main list at number 50.

Well, from Google Code Search point of view, Lua is in the top 33, since 
it is in their list of 33 supported languages:
Ada, ASP, Assembly, Basic, C, C++, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Fortran, Java, 
JavaScript, JSP, Lex, Limbo, Lisp, Lua, Makefile, Mathematica, Matlab, 
Objective C, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Shell, 
Smalltalk, SQL, Tcl, Troff, Yacc

I don't see Icon in the above list, I just have read the easy tutorials 
on this language, it is nice.

Back to Tiobe, I see D is in the top 20, I didn't knew it was popular.
(Bourne) Shell has a low rating, which is surprising given that probably 
most computer engineers having working in Unix know it more or less.

Of course, one can question the methodology they use, although the top 
20 seems quite credible.

I am not sure what they call "Logical Languages". A quick search shown 
mostly links to artificial (non-programming) languages, like Loglan and 
Lojban.

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