Sunday, 14 August 2011

Tiobe language index

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

Interesting list. The problem is that when you click on the definitions, you see that it's measured by search engine hits. Simply have more material, or old material, or wrong material, online or a more generic language name and you're "more popular". Apparently, the first 100 pages are checked for relevance. Congratulations- out of the 20 billion results for C, I'm sure that the first 2,500 provide a relevant sample.

I've been thinking more about my university work. It's so depressing. Someone please shoot me. Did I memorize the formula for generating a rotation matrix? No, I damn well did not memorize it. I looked it up on Wikipedia or I Googled it or I used the mathematical support library that comes with my API that actually puts shit on my screen. Now, I appreciate that my time has little value and I'm some nobody student who wastes it on games and languages that will likely never take off, but it sure as hell has more value than the time of Google's servers. That's free. Literally, free. For anyone. Even me.

What a total waste of my time.

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