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It was just last December that Tim O’Reilly said that Ruby book sales had surpassed Python book sales. Now Ruby book sales have also surpassed Perl book sales.

Tim O’Reilly posted the graph below which shows the books sales since 2003 for the most commonly used dynamic programming languages.

Notice the rise in JavaScript book sales, too (obviously due to the popularity of Ajax).

Note: I know that the graphic above overlaps my sidebar. Does anyone know how to make Textile markup scale an image? Anyway, you can click on the graphic to go to an O’Reilly page that displays it alone.