Re: TIOBE: Lua in the Top 20

[xxmplus <xxmplus@...>]

On 7/11/07, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > The detailed chart for Lua (http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Lua.html) shows
> > a huge jump in popularity in the last few months.  Does anyone have a theory
> > as to what caused this dramatic rise?
>
> The book "Beginning Lua Programming"? It has the exact fragment
> "Lua programming" that TIOBE looks for, and it was released exaclty
> when Lua's index did the big jump...
>
> -- Roberto

World of Warcraft was released during that time, I bet it's the reason.
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