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Ruby. (mentioned elsewhere, but let's distill it down)

• Roboprog 10y ago
  Perl idioms translate to Ruby quite well, but with better object syntax, and a more unified runtime library to deal with code blocks or other higher order function type usages.
  • Roboprog 10y ago
    That said, Perl 5 can be quite a bit faster (to run) than Ruby. But Ruby is speeding up, and is generally easier to read.