Ruby has taken over Perl as my preferred language for small fun projects that I don't intend to update very often. The syntax is more flexible, the libraries a

Ruby has taken over Perl as my preferred language for small fun projects that I don't intend to update very often. The syntax is more flexible, the libraries are more convenient, and the language just feels more fun overall. It used to be that Perl came pre-installed while Ruby is not, but these days Ruby is fairly available across the systems that I use. Much of the fun was due to influence from Yusuke Endoh: https://github.com/mame https://github.com/mame