Like Matz, creator of Ruby, said [1] - and if I didn't paraphrase I think it would lose part of its charm - :

"If you can make up a website that has a higher traffic than Twitter ... it's a great success of business ... so you have money ... so you're safe to hire the Java programmer to replace it. [laughs]"

http://ontwik.com/ruby/ruby-2-0-what-we-want-to-accomplish-i...