With TIOBE continuing to persist despite it's stupidity, it would appear we're now moving into the second phase witnessed by almost every flawed design.
That's right, people are now starting to "correct" their language's bad scores by adjusting their behaviours to match the incorrect design.
Delphi has done it, and with 0.02% of CPAN pages having the words "Perl programming" on it, it's probably time we did it too.
After all, we're just "correcting" our language's bad numbers.
But why not take it one (or ten) steps further towards it's logical conclusion.
If 4chan has taught us anything, it's that bad designs shouldn't just be tolerated. They should be stressed to the point of failing to truly demonstrate the asshattery of the people involved.
Now, since there are half a million pages currently on cpan.org that we could modify to include the word "Perl programming" why not go for a two-for-one, and add the words "brainfuck programming" as well.
Well, maybe not brainfuck. We'll need something that's already on the index. Personally I like the look of SuperCollider, a domain specific audio processing language with a 1994-era "homepage" with a rainbow background.
Lets make it our mission to help SuperCollider assume it's rightful place as an "A" ranked TIOBE language!
What a wonderful idea! How about new popularity surge for COBOL?
Although I suspect the TIOBE people would recognize this, and promptly ignore the bad data...
Re:YouTube: fast route to SuperCollider Programmin
Alias on 2009-05-18T09:58:31
The thing I like about the web though, is that since basically all of search.cpan.org is indexed, once small change to the page generator and we've added 50,000 odd page.
Re:YouTube: fast route to SuperCollider Programmin
barbie on 2009-05-18T12:13:10
Would adding to the generator for the (currently) 142,644 CPAN Testers pages help?
;)
Re:YouTube: fast route to SuperCollider Programmin
dagolden on 2009-05-18T13:37:53
Depends if they're getting indexed by Google/Yahoo.
Maybe I should patch Test::Reporter to add it to the CPAN Tester reports themselves.
From this:
This distribution has been tested as part of the cpan-testers
effort to test as many new uploads to CPAN as possible. See
http://www.cpantesters.org/To this:
This distribution has been tested as part of the cpan-testers
effort to test as many new uploads to CPAN as possible. See
http://www.cpantesters.org/ for more perl programming test results.If the top testers upgraded, that would add 100K+ pages per month... [1]
-- dagolden
[1] Until CPAN Testers 2.0, when those emails go away. Then you'll have to put it on each individual report page and make sure those 3.5+ million reports get indexed.
:-) Re:YouTube: fast route to SuperCollider Programmin
Alias on 2009-05-18T13:49:58
Sounds good to me.
Re:YouTube: fast route to SuperCollider Programmin
Alias on 2009-05-18T13:37:58
It would be awesome.
It would be even more awesome if it was backup with a Google Sitemap XML file
:)
Re:Doing my part to point out dumb
drhyde on 2009-05-20T10:55:50
I'd love to add it to cpandeps and then let google crawl it again (there's another several hundred pages for you), but just can't handle the load. Need tuits to do more caching.
Re:Another idea
Alias on 2009-05-19T00:31:27
This has already been done, twice!
The problem is that because TIOBE is a company, they have better PR. They've also been around a long time, which adds to the sense of officialdom.
If this problem could be solved by just making a better index, we wouldn't have this problem.
