Ruby has some of Perl's problems. One's experience with a language is not merely writing greenfield code on your own. Instead it's maintaining and understanding

Ruby has some of Perl's problems. One's experience with a language is not merely writing greenfield code on your own. Instead it's maintaining and understanding other people's code, more often than not. If that task is burdensome and frustrating then your feelings towards the language in general will reflect that. Ruby encourages a lot of cowboy coding practices like monkey patching and so forth, which make maintenance a hazard.