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Finally, one guy seeing Ruby for what it is: a ‘Scripting Language’:

The middle ground is really where Ruby belongs, where it flourishes. It’s hardly a general-purpose language, so it could never replace Java and company. With that said, it’s far easier to write an incremental backup script in Ruby than in Java. And while Ruby may not be suitable for an enterprise level, high-traffic web application, it’s certainly up for some tasks within that application.

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