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Ruby book sales have exploded. In total, Ruby is up 1,552% over last year in the same period. That's one thousand, five hundred, and fifty two percent. Holy smokes. It's insane!

To bring that number into perspective, Ruby books are now selling better than Python books. Which of course is the first time that ever happened. And that language was not even standing still. Python is up 20% over last year. At the same time, Perl is down 3%, Java down 4%. So its no wonder we have a feeling that the duo of modern, dynamic languages are taking off. It's because they are!

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DJ Hannibal wrote:

I wasted so much money on Java books, and so much time wasted learning Java. It really makes me sad. Oh well. I guess the only good that came out of working with Java is that I really had no idea how bad it really sucked. I thought it was just an older, more primitive ancestor of C#. I couldn't have been any more wrong. Java is absolutely FUBAR.

I will buy a Ruby book tonight to do my part.

∴ DJ Hannibal | 9-Dec-2005 11:38am est | #8820

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