If you know Python you can easily learn Ruby. Not hard to do that transition. Although not similar they share the same idiomatic programming principles drawn fr

If you know Python you can easily learn Ruby. Not hard to do that transition. Although not similar they share the same idiomatic programming principles drawn from languages like Perl. Also, Ruby was inspired by Python: "I was talking with my colleague about the possibility of an object-oriented scripting language. I knew Perl (Perl4, not Perl5), but I didn't like it really, because it had the smell of a toy language (it still has). The object-oriented language seemed very promising. I knew Python then. But I didn't like it, because I didn't think it was a true object-oriented language – OO features appeared to be add-on to the language. As a language maniac and OO fan for 15 years, I really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language. I looked for but couldn't find one. So I decided to make it." - Matasamoto.