As a one time ultra-heavy Perl programmer, when I returned to programming this year after a hiatus of several years, Ruby just made the most sense to me, and yo

As a one time ultra-heavy Perl programmer, when I returned to programming this year after a hiatus of several years, Ruby just made the most sense to me, and you do a good job of listing why. I still use Perl occasionally, but essentially for *Nix sys-admin stuff.