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Ruby book sales pass up Perl

by Ryan Carter on August 6, 2006 at 02:03 PM

O'Reilly Radar reports that Ruby programming book sales outpace Perl books. This is somewhat surprising, but not unexpected. Ruby is quickly becoming a popular language. Surpassing Perl is a clue that Ruby is gaining significant ground on its way to stardom. While Ruby is seen as the primadonna of web coding by many, it does hold real value. Ruby offers a lot of the things developers have needed for a long time. It simplifies a lot of programming concepts and is worth the lookup. You can download Ruby free and you'll see why it is quickly gaining ground in the web dev world.

[Via O'Reilly]

Tags: news, opensource, perl, ruby

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