For me, learning Ruby after years of knowing Perl was a resounding "meh." The documentation is substandard compared to Perl's and it doesn't really offer anythi

For me, learning Ruby after years of knowing Perl was a resounding "meh." The documentation is substandard compared to Perl's and it doesn't really offer anything that Perl does except for less weirdness in the nooks and crannies and some improved syntactic sugar in some cases (though when I look at Ruby code all I see is "end end end end end"). And Python certainly has its own feel. But again it's not really any more powerful than Perl and offers nothing but an alternate simplified syntax. Programming in Python makes me really miss Perl--I always feel like I'm speaking baby talk instead of full blown English. Really elegant baby talk, but baby talk none the less.