The TIOBE index is meaningless

The TIOBE index ranks programming languages. It claims to be based “on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors”. But how can they reliably and automatically mine such infomration using just search engine results?

Actually, not only is their data not very reliable, but it is also prone to “spamming”, because search engines are! And this is why we see a totally obscure experimental Forth-like language such as “Factor” get in the top 50. There is only one explanation: the TIOBE index is simply a combination of the number of results of some search queries at major search engines; as a handful of persons regularly post articles about Factor at social bookmarking sites such as Reddit or at Wikipedia, this artificially inflates their position.

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