[kragen]

> Did you get this list of 15 languages from TIOBE

Yes, I thought it would be better if it reflected TIOBE's biases instead of my own. However, I did succumb to the temptation of including the first 15 instead of the first 10, because leaving out Ruby at #11 seemed too extreme.

> Groovy … ludicrous

I was surprised to see Groovy on the list myself, because I thought it was pretty much dead. It would have displaced Golang, which is notable for its lack of metaprogramming and its departure from the Lisp memory model into something much more C-like than Java, C#, PHP, Python, or Ruby.

> surely some others of those languages have also been similarly fabricated

Yeah, likely. There's a whole SEO industry of liars trying to fake buzz. I think they're broadly correct, though.