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Which language should my startup use?

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Ruby was considered a dead language to all but some system administrators when it was revived in 2003 by 37signals to develop their award-winning productivity startup Basecamp, and then taken on to power Twitter. Ruby on Rails is a combination of framework and language, with Ruby being the language and Rails being the framework.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) link] SEO India Wonderful!! As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003.