Ruby used to be considered a more beautiful Perl. With Perl it shares powerful meta programming facilities, good package management and a high degree of flexibi

Ruby used to be considered a more beautiful Perl. With Perl it shares powerful meta programming facilities, good package management and a high degree of flexibility when it comes to implement something. Ruby added a MOP and prettier syntax. Many early Ruby devs migrated from Perl. Pythonistas always were a community of its own and tended to frown upon any other language users.