From my experience back then, it was about the libraries, not the language. I think this still is the case today. Back in the day, Perl had all the libraries a

From my experience back then, it was about the libraries, not the language. I think this still is the case today. Back in the day, Perl had all the libraries and they were easy to install and worked well, then Python overtook this had all the libraries. Ruby never really had enough libraries to compete against Python.