From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-02-09T22:31:40+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP 625 times as popular as Ruby !?

Robert wrote:
> Peter Hickman wrote:
> 
>> Maybe I should go over to comp.lang.python and see if you have written 
>> 'Perl is 25 times as popular as Python'. Which of course you should 
>> write as Perl has vastly more libraries of high quality software than 
>> python.
>>
> Go Perl! Ooops. Sorry.  ;-)

But Perl is dead. Go PHP! :-)

Seriously, some software are "destined" (read: designed) to be popular 
and some are not. PHP and Python, for example, are designed with the 
goal to be easy to learn and comes with as many batteries as it can. 
Thus it will be used by as many people as it can.

Ruby is designed with a different goal I think, and I'm glad it is. 
Would you be content if every kid in the block used Ruby? Where's your 
edge then? :-)

-- 
dave