JAjajaja,<br><br>It&#39;s not that Indexes are not trustable...� They are measured in a way Smalltalk will never be recognized as popular:<br><br>- searches in yahoo<br>- open source projects in some webs<br>- people asking for job<br>
<br>The only one that surprized me is the book&#39;s one.� But <br>1) the data is not taken from amazon and I don&#39;t know this Powell&#39;s Books library :P.<br>2) It&#39;s true that there is a stupid amount of java, c#, c++ books...<br>
<br>Maybe we can think a not so stupid index.<br><br>Cheers<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:12 AM, laurent laffont <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:laurent.laffont@gmail.com">laurent.laffont@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">And I&#39;ve just seen the bottom of the message :), it seems�<a href="http://langpop.com/" target="_blank">http://langpop.com/</a> agree with TIOBE.<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:09 AM, laurent laffont <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:laurent.laffont@gmail.com" target="_blank">laurent.laffont@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


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<p class="MsoNormal">While pleading for Smalltalk support with a developer from a popular and great IDE company, I got the <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">following response (below)<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">



Is there anything I can do/show to prove or disprove the popularity of Smalltalk?</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>According to TIOBE, Smalltalk is as popular as Erlang and more popular than Scala <a href="http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html</a></div>



<div><br></div><div>But that&#39;s only numbers and I don&#39;t trust it :)</div><div><br></div><div>May be your developer from a &quot;popular&quot; IDE company should define what &quot;popular&quot; means...</div><div>


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Rgs, James.<br><font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><br>



</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&gt;&gt;Hello James.</span></font></p>&gt;&gt;<font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">About Smalltalk plugin. Weel, I�m
not sure Smalltalk has a big audience now. I�ve never heard about commercial
products based on Smalltalk. <br>&gt;&gt;Here, some statistics </span></font><a href="http://langpop.com/" target="_blank">http://langpop.com/</a> <font style="font-size: 10pt;" color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"></span></font> 		 	   		  </div>




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