Keep in mind that in the question of C vs C++, C may very well be overrepresented in a text-based search like Google. Consider the following linkOriginally Posted by anduril462
stackoverflow.com/questions/9371238/why-is-reading-lines-from-stdin-much-slower-in-c-than-python
From the URL, it looks like it is comparing C to Python. In fact, it is about C++. The URL does not allow + symbols inside them, so they are automatically filtered out for "Search Engine Friendliness"
That being said, I have read in the TIOBE description that they do make note of this and try to account for it in their index.
