ruby declared programming language of year 2006!
January 5, 2007
see for yourself on the TIOBE index.
Java, c/c++, PHP, Perl, C#, Python and Javascript are still ahead but non of the other languages gained a whopping 11 positions and Ruby is now in the Top10. Where will '007 lead us? seven? five? Ruby is mainstream now.
UPDATE: thank you for the screenshot: