Tiobe Survey Does ColdFusion an Injustice
by Judith Dinowitz
The Tiobe Programming Community Index rates the popularity of the programming languages out there based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. How do they get their results? The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo! are used to calculate the ratings. And where does ColdFusion rate on their scale? 30! It's listed below Awk, Dbase, Prolog, Postscript and Pascal. The Tiobe ratings are biased. Do the number of links referenced by search engines really tell us how popular these languages are among programmers? ColdFusion is often used to build intranets and back end sites, which are not publicly accessible and wouldn't show up on the search engine's radar. Does anyone here really think that Pascal and Prolog are more popular than ColdFusion? How does Tiobe choose what to include as a programming language? They use the Wikipedia criteria, and apparently, ASP and SQL don't rate. Why isn't ASP a programming language? Like SQL, it is considered a technique that makes use of other languages (JavaScript and VBScript.) What language today does not make use of other languages? ColdFusion is based on Java. Almost every language that deals wtih databases uses SQL. Using this criteria, most languages today would be out of the running. Tiobe, get a clue! Tiobe Programming Community Index for July 2005Latest ColdFusion Talk (CF-Talk)
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