Tim O’Reilly reports that according to Nielsen Bookscan, sales of Ruby books have passed sales of Perl books.

It should be noted that sales of Ruby on Rails books is counted along with Ruby and also that these sails are “driven by recency”, and sales of Perl could spike when Perl 6 comes out.

This is interesting news nonetheless.

PHP still rules the roost under the web’s hood, so to speak, but Ruby is now definitely more than a lightweight contender.

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