[gus_massa]

> or only obviously unrelated junk

Does Tiobe detect that it's junk/padding or they just scrap the number and take it at face value?

[nindalf]

The latter. That's precisely what they do. I emailed them and verified this.

[Y_Y]

That's pretty funny, since the search turned up downright confounding results, like books about programming with an author named "Jasmin". For "carbon programming" I got a ton of books about C, can't guess why, but it's surely not good data.

Maybe I'll make a language called "Introduction to" or "Linear" and shoot to the top of the index.