IMHO, Ruby is a much better Perl replacement than Python. Ruby is heavily inspired by Perl and lets you do a lot of work with simple one liners embedded in Bas

IMHO, Ruby is a much better Perl replacement than Python. Ruby is heavily inspired by Perl and lets you do a lot of work with simple one liners embedded in Bash scripts. It's also great for longer standalone programs and there is a larger community. Lots of interesting Perl-isms are also doable in Ruby.