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polemic on March 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

Python has been the de facto scripting language of choice for automation in a number of industries for quite some time.

I don't believe (but correct me if I'm wrong) that Ruby has ever gained much traction outside of the software development world. Perhaps we're just seeing some natural consolidation.

pilom on March 23, 2012 [–]

Ruby is the language that Puppet and Chef (the 2 most popular configuration management systems) are based on.

njharman on March 24, 2012 | | [–]

The roles Puppet and Chef fill are small parts of "automation".

manojlds on March 24, 2012 | | [–]

Puppet is written in Ruby, but has it's own DSL, so it doesn't really count.

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