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James Gosling, the creator of Java, gave his take on PHP and Ruby at a Sun conference lately:

PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems, but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance problems.

Heh. I love quotes like that. You don't even have to add commentary. Just imagine a puzzled face with raised eyebrows.