They are all great for simple scripting with the ability to move into larger scale projects. I've been highly productive in all three with ruby probably being m

They are all great for simple scripting with the ability to move into larger scale projects. I've been highly productive in all three with ruby probably being my favourite as I liked the syntax and flow of it a lot more than the other two. From my experience perl readability was always the most difficult, coming back to something I wrote a couple weeks later I felt like it was complete gibberish whereas ruby was much easier. The ruby community is huge, the libraries are endless and there is no lack of documentation out there. In my opinion ruby is where you should start.