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So like, Puppet & Chef are pretty big Ruby devops communities. And Ruby is fairly obviously inspired by Perl.

• ZenoArrow 10y ago
  Ruby's name was inspired by Perl, but I'm curious to know which language structures you think were inspired by Perl.
  • joseph 10y ago
    The regular expression syntax; sigils on (some) variables; shortcuts like `bar if foo`; optional parenthesis on function calls; `chomp()` and `chop()`; those are just a few things that come to mind.
  • cutler 10y ago
    Read up on Matz's account of how he developed Ruby and what were his influences. Larry Wall was top his list.
  • coldtea 10y ago
    Ruby has since forever been described as a cross between Perl and Smalltalk (and some other languages), including by its creator (Matz).