I'd say rather - ruby. Ruby has the syntactic power to write stuff very succintly, lot of good apis (and some crappy too), had since its inception a good repl

I'd say rather - ruby. Ruby has the syntactic power to write stuff very succintly, lot of good apis (and some crappy too), had since its inception a good repl which perl always ignored.. There was a time, just before the rails boom, when ruby had a lot of traction in admins and that-era-devops circles