Yes, Ruby was inspired quite a bit by Perl. Matz says so somewhere, IIRC. Even it's regex support (I mean the way it is integrated into the language, unlike in

Yes, Ruby was inspired quite a bit by Perl. Matz says so somewhere, IIRC. Even it's regex support (I mean the way it is integrated into the language, unlike in Python, not that fact that Ruby supports regex per se), and some language features, are inspired by Perl. Also either or both of Lisp and Smalltalk, I've read.