My guess is this thread has come up before.

Is it possible for the US to develop corporate acceptance for another
language. I find Ruby to be 5-20% better than Perl based on what
aspect of the languages we are talking about, but both languages
are high-performers, almost like comparing the Yankees and the Mets or
something. 

Thus, I don't see corporate America as looking for something to fill
Perl's gap. 

Corporate America sees java as the de facto standard for web
development and Perl as the de facto standard for back-end
processing. 

Maybe someone has some ideas about how Ruby will squeeze in over here.

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Terrence Brannon