How did Ruby and Python prevent fragmentation while ML and Lisp did not?

Re:How did Ruby and Python prevent fragmentation while ML an... by icebraining on Sunday May 06, 2012 @04:46PM (#3936262)

According to the TIOBE index, Python was already in the Top-10 in 2003, before Rails was even released.

You should remember there's a lot of Python usage besides web, like in the scientific community.

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Re:How did Ruby and Python prevent fragmentation while ML an... by middayc on Sunday May 06, 2012 @08:06PM (#3936921)

Yes, Python was strong before Ruby (which I indicated hopefully), but it wasn't as mainstream as it is now when it's everywhere (at least in circles around me).

I back then used it for a lot of things and most weren't related to web. But I think it made the biggest jump after Ruby backslash. From quick peek at TIOBE:

""" "Programming Language of the Year" award winners is shown below. The award is given to the programming language that has the highest rise in ratings in a year. """

2007 Python 2006 Ruby 2005 Java

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Re:How did Ruby and Python prevent fragmentation while ML an... by nknight on Sunday May 06, 2012 @09:25PM (#3937133)

Mailman, the original BitTorrent client, Gentoo's Portage/emerge tools, yum, Eve Online, and a large swathe of 90s-era Red Hat Linux system configuration tools have all been written in Python, all predating Django and your "Ruby backlash" timescale by at least 2-3 years. And not one of them is web-related.

Most of the code that gets written in Python has nothing to do with web development. Web development is just high-profile.

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