Fortran returns to top 20 TIOBE index

It took only 2 prompts to translate my associations to an image (though I am unhappy with the F here). :wink:

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This video explains well why Fortran is still around.

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Documenting the many pronunciations of Fortran employed by the AI narrator :grin:

  • fur-TRAWN
  • FOR-tron
  • Fortran
  • FOR-TRAN
  • For-Tron
  • for-TRAN
  • for-TRON
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Oct 2025: 11, 1.7%.

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June 2026: 17, 0.95%
First time below 1% since June 2023 it seems.
TIOBE Index - TIOBE

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Once it drops out of top 20, then TIOBE will again not be very relevant or accurate, as people have been saying. :slight_smile:

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@CRquantum Yeah, that was quite something earlier this morning when adding the current reading (1.22% in April → corresponding to place 13, 1.22% in May → place 11, 0.95% in June → place 17) to the table (entry 86 to this thread) and the ASCII/csv table. While returning my cup to the shelf, I briefly thought if the kurtosis and skewness of this distribution changed over the time (the .csv links to the corresponding snapshots stored on archive.org) which however wasn’t followed through in favour of «other things™».

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