[E-Lang] language popularity

[Richard Uhtenwoldt]

Dan Moniz writes:

>>I am curious about current traffic rates on the
>>newsgroups related to Ruby, another pure OS play. 
>
>The largest, most inclusive communications medium for Ruby users and 
>developers right now is the ruby-talk mailing list 
><http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ml.html>. There's an archive of the list 
>(powered by Ruby) at 
><http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml>

this mailing list is getting around 1400 messages/month.  again, in my
survey 3 or 4 years ago, only 5 languages (C, C++, VB, Perl, Java)
generated >1400 Usenet messages/mo.  Ruby started life in 1993 in Japan.
it is safe to say that Ruby will continue to get more popular, and has
already reached or will reach very soon 'massively popular' status.

Ruby has a non-standard but permissive open-source license.