Re: Lua enters Tiobe top 50

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 6 Oct 2006, at 11:38, Philippe Lhoste wrote:

> 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.

Oh yes, everyone should learn Icon.  More power to your coroutines!   
Icon's generators are a nice idea to have in a language and once  
you've mastered them in Icon you can bring the ideas back into your  
Lua programs with coroutines.
> I am not sure what they call "Logical Languages". A quick search  
> shown mostly links to artificial (non-programming) languages, like  
> Loglan and Lojban.

Prolog and Mercury I should expect.  Mabye there are others, I'm not  
familiar with these languages.

drj