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[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:50, Ian Petersen wrote:
> > - Ruby is still young (though growing fast). Python has the great
> > advantage of over ten years of learning resources, tools, and
> > library support
>
> I might be nitpicking, or even veering off topic here, but Ruby is
> about as old as Java.  The first publicly available interpreter was
> released sometime around 1995.  Of course, everything was Japanese,
> so it didn't get much attention in North America.  Once the
> Pragmatic Programmers created some English documentation, it
> started to get some exposure, and then David Heinemeier Hansson
> (also known as DHH) released Ruby on Rails, which has only
> increased Ruby's visibility.

Actually, it took a few years for RoR to become an "overnight" success 
so Ruby's increase in visibility did not coincide with RoR's release 
but rather when RoR reached a tipping point in 2005.
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