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[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:39:57PM -0500, A. Khattri took 17 lines to write:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> > I'm skeptical. Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm serious when I say
> > I'm willing to be proven wrong.
> 
> BTW, just wanted to share this with the list:
> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html

So, BookScan indicates that more Ruby than Python books sold in
December. That's totally congruent with "the new shiny thing" theory
I maintain. I also note that the overall buzz for Ruby on Rails was
up during the last quarter of 2005. Great. We'll see how it all plays
out. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that Ruby won't command a certain
amount of attention, because I'm sure it will. Rather, it's got a large
mountain to climb before the installed base gets anywhere near that of
"traditional" LAMP.

Kurt
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