# O'REILLY radar Q206

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oreilly-radar-q206/64646>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oreilly-radar-q206/64646 "2006-08-15T14:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oreilly-radar-q206/64646/1 "2006-08-15T14:12:13Z")

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From Tims blog:

A few high-level observations:

- C# book sales continues to gain on Java, with a 49% unit  
sales increase compared to Java’s 10% decrease.

- Ruby continues its momentum, and is the fastest-growing  
programming language in terms of book sales.

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the link:  
[http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/07/state\_of\_the\_computer\_book\_mar](http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/07/state_of_the_computer_book_mar)  
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**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oreilly-radar-q206/64646/2 "2006-08-15T14:13:24Z")

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From a math professor on Tim’s statistics:  
[http://ablog.apress.com/?p=1054](http://ablog.apress.com/?p=1054)