Tiobe measure the popularity of a language by the number of its google and youtube (!) results. Lisp is growing there because all of you, xarn-wannabes, have shitty blogs where you tell the world how much you enjoyed discovering Lisp.
>>10
Fuck you, idiot. I didn't even know who is xarn until I found this stupid chan. I've been a Lisp lover long before. Lisp is awesome. Its fans are just dumb, pretty much like Ruby fans (despite Ruby being a nice toy) and... pretty much like the fans of every programming language out there. Programming enthusiasts should grow up and that realize programming is something normal in this day and age, and that various programming languages exist as various approaches for various problems.
Sure, I can easily justify my choice of Lisp as the best language out there, but that doesn't mean it's something like "the one and only solution for every single problem in the universe in any given context".
>>11
Don't be so easily offended. Xarn was name dropped just to make sure everybody will understand this was a troll (some kind of joke, you know, some stupid BBS humor aiming to be more elaborate than swastikas). Still, there might be some truth in the statement. Think about it.
And nothing was said about Lisp being awesome or not. It's all about popularity and shitty blogs, mind you.
Glad to have spoken with an old Lisper. Will use winky smileys next time.
>>17 The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.