I suspect this was meant tongue-in-cheek given that Ruby is known to be a low-performance language and Perl code used to be compared to 'line noise' - think bac

I suspect this was meant tongue-in-cheek given that Ruby is known to be a low-performance language and Perl code used to be compared to 'line noise' - think back to the times of analogue phone lines and modems which sometimes introduced noise into the data.