Ruby declared TIOBE's Programming Language of 2006!

We are glad to announce that Ruby has become "Programming Language of the Year 2006". 
Ruby has the highest popularity increase in a year of all programming languages 
(+2.15%). Runner up this year is JavaScript with +1.31%. Both languages are boosted 
by their corresponding frameworks, Ruby On Rails and Ajax. This might be a new trend. 
In the recent past it was necessary to have a large company behind the language to 
get it in the spotlight (Sun with Java, Microsoft with C#), but nowadays a killer 
app appears to be sufficient. Viral marketing via the Internet works! The winners of 
the last 2 years, PHP and Java, are the losers of this year. Other trends that are 
observed are the growth of dynamically typed languages and the fact that the 
difference in popularity between languages is getting less.

TIOBEで2006年で最も人気度が増加した言語がRubyだったらしい．2番目がJavaScript．人気度はgoogleやyahooなどの検索エンジンでどれくらいプログラム言語がヒットするかをもとに計算している．計算方法はここ．

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