Hmmm, i am curious about what the percentage of people who jump off of bridges because other people jump first might be ... Seriously, whatever the numbers are, i am sure that they are quite meaningless compared to the pecentage of projects that used the right scripting language versus the ones that didn't. At any rate ... numbers can lie, so i personally tend to ignore what everyone else is doing and focus on what problem i need to solve.

This has been said time and time again, use the correct tool for the job. Maybe in the future we will see some application framework that allows any scripting language to be used (then the matter will mostly be personal preference and resistance to learning another language), but in the meantime, choose the scripting language that fits in with the scheme of the solution, not the one that is the "most popular". Just my two coins.

Oh yeah, use Perl! ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)