> I definitely see Ruby as Perl's spiritual successor. Matz has said this himself: * "I chose the name of the language from the jewel name, influenced by Perl

> I definitely see Ruby as Perl's spiritual successor. Matz has said this himself: * "I chose the name of the language from the jewel name, influenced by Perl. Although I named Ruby rather by coincidence, I later realized that ruby comes right after pearl in several situations, including birthstones (pearl for June, ruby for July) and font sizes (Perl is 5-point, Ruby is 5.5-point). I thought that it only made sense to use Ruby as a name for a scripting language that was newer (and, hopefully, better) than Perl." (https://lingualeo.com/tr/jungle/231625 https://lingualeo.com/tr/jungle/231625) * "Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually." (https://www.artima.com/intv/ruby3.html https://www.artima.com/intv/ruby3.html)