Fortran Programming Language :: fortran is more popular


	fortran is more popular I found this link while trying to get my bearings with perl. I asked, in the german-language forum, how popular Perl was in Germany and managed to touch off a little debate. Let's hope I haven't disrupted German unity:-) http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm Fortran shows itself more popular this April than last, holding its spot at 20th. While some may disagree with say, Java, being 25 times as popular as Fortran, the numbers are compelling. It looks like they work hard to get these stats. It's rare to find a site that can even list a hundred computer languages in a sensical manner. Thought it might interest. -- Wade Ward In article <rvGdndltqZ1WtKTbnZ2dnUVZ_v2kn@comcast.com>, Wade Ward <inva@invalid.net> wrote: > It looks like they work hard to get these stats. It looks very bogus to me. Note that ABAP is suddenly rising in the rankings. It's been around for a long time, it's the extension language for SAP. Do you really think it's gotten 4X as popular in the last year, or is someone manipulating the rankings? -- greg "Greg Lindahl" <lind@pbm.com> wrote in message news:46392ef6$1@news.meer.net... > In article <rvGdndltqZ1WtKTbnZ2dnUVZ_v2kn@comcast.com>, > Wade Ward <inva@invalid.net> wrote: >> It looks like they work hard to get these stats. > It looks very bogus to me. > Note that ABAP is suddenly rising in the rankings. It's been around > for a long time, it's the extension language for SAP. Do you really > think it's gotten 4X as popular in the last year, or is someone > manipulating the rankings? Wouldn't, in the top twenty, there be about one that had gained so heavily, and unless ABAP is the in-house language of the Republican Party, I wouldn't suspect it of fraud, so sure. -- WW In article <naidncoHCKO1rKTbnZ2dnUVZ_smon@comcast.com>, Wade Ward <inva@invalid.net> wrote: >> Note that ABAP is suddenly rising in the rankings. It's been around >> for a long time, it's the extension language for SAP. Do you really >> think it's gotten 4X as popular in the last year, or is someone >> manipulating the rankings? >Wouldn't, in the top twenty, there be about one that had gained so heavily, >and unless ABAP is the in-house language of the Republican Party, I wouldn't >suspect it of fraud, so sure. I assure you that SAP's sales have not risen by anywhere near 4X in the past year. Remember, the burden of proof is on Tiobe, not me. Mind you, Google shows only 1/3 as many hits for "ABAP Programming" as "Fortran Programming". B-O-G-U-S. -- g - Hide quoted text - Greg Lindahl wrote: > In article <naidncoHCKO1rKTbnZ2dnUVZ_smon@comcast.com>, > Wade Ward <inva@invalid.net> wrote: >>> Note that ABAP is suddenly rising in the rankings. It's been around >>> for a long time, it's the extension language for SAP. Do you really >>> think it's gotten 4X as popular in the last year, or is someone >>> manipulating the rankings? >> Wouldn't, in the top twenty, there be about one that had gained so heavily, >> and unless ABAP is the in-house language of the Republican Party, I wouldn't >> suspect it of fraud, so sure. > I assure you that SAP's sales have not risen by anywhere near 4X in > the past year. Remember, the burden of proof is on Tiobe, not me. > Mind you, Google shows only 1/3 as many hits for "ABAP Programming" as > "Fortran Programming". B-O-G-U-S. If they're measuring how much garbage about those languages makes the Web, their rankings may not be far off. I suppose c.l.f gets mirrored to where they see it, but even among newsgroups. the garbage rate is relatively low. A lot of useful gfortran mail list posts probably slip under their radar. I don't expect Fortran people to try to modify behavior so as to get their share of hits on this site.