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		anuraj on June 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP Addiction Python and ruby are just scripting languages - Java is a structured type safe language which is battle hard. No comparison!

lucian1900 on June 30, 2012 [–]

Don't be silly. All three languages are of similar maturity (in fact Python is even older than Java) and all three have been "battle tested".

The only thing you might argue is that the JVM is a better runtime than CPython or CRuby, and for that there's JRuby and Jython.

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