Ruby was heavily inspired by Perl. I know a few people that moved from Perl to Ruby and felt quite a home. (Personally, my path away from Perl is likely to be

Ruby was heavily inspired by Perl. I know a few people that moved from Perl to Ruby and felt quite a home. (Personally, my path away from Perl is likely to be to TypeScript on Deno, since if I'm going to make a change I might as well pick up some major benefits along with the normal set of trade-offs).