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TIOBE index
Comparison of the popularity of a programming language
The TIOBE programming community index is a measure of popularity of programming languages, created and maintained by TIOBE Software BV, based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. TIOBE stands for The Importance of Being Earnest, the title of an 1895 comedy play by Oscar Wilde, to emphasize the organization's "sincere and professional attitude towards customers, suppliers and colleagues".
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The index is calculated from the number of search engine results for queries containing the name of the language. The index covers searches in Google, Google Blogs, MSN, Yahoo!, Baidu, Wikipedia, and YouTube. The index is updated once a month. The current information is free, but the long-term statistical data is for sale. The index authors have stated that it may be valuable when making various strategic decisions. TIOBE focuses on Turing complete programming languages, and provides no information on the popularity of markup languages, such as HTML or XML. TIOBE index is sensitive to the ranking policy of the search engines on which it is based. For example, in April 2004, Google performed a cleanup action to get rid of unfair attempts to promote the search rank of many websites.
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