[kyllo]

Ruby devs build more web apps and Python devs do more systems dev and data crunching. Not exactly a groundbreaking revelation knowing that Python has much more in the way of bindings for C/C++ and Fortran libraries for statistical / math routines, but still interesting to see this reconfirmed.

[ChikkaChiChi]

Source?

My understanding was that before Rails, Ruby was considered primarily a language used for mathematics. Anecdotally, it does seem that I see a lot of stories about using python for statistics, but I haven't seen any hard numbers one way or the other.

Python seems to also have a lot of web implementations. I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers from.

[darrhiggs]

I believe they are referring to the article

> The skills and time load sections both re-inforce that Python is more heavily linked to Data Science than Ruby. Ruby is more of a web technology with strong affinity to front-end technologies and iOS.

[kyllo]

SciPy, matplotlib, pandas et al have existed and seen heavy use in the mathematical/scientific programming field for many years.

SciRuby is a great project started last year to bring the same functionality to Ruby.

[MrBra]

what planet do you come from? :)