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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by kingkongrevenge on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @04:54PM (#384896)
By any purely empirical analysis Ruby practically doesn't exist.
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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by petercooper on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @10:07PM (#385239)
By the same metrics, assuming you've defined any, a lot of things wouldn't exist - particularly languages less popular than Ruby now, such as Logo, ActionScript, Lisp, COBOL, Scala or Haskell.

There are tens of thousands of Ruby developers and hundreds (if not thousands) of companies making significant amounts of money, all backed by Ruby.

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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by davidw on Thursday December 04, 2008 @11:30AM (#385804)
Actually, by this analysis, it isn't that far behind Perl and Python:

http://www.langpop.com/#normalized

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