I started on Perl as well back in a day, and used it long enough to get a list of things I didn't like, though I liked the basic principles. Ruby really is a Pe

I started on Perl as well back in a day, and used it long enough to get a list of things I didn't like, though I liked the basic principles. Ruby really is a Perl without unnecessary parts, which are surprisingly many. I remember noticing absense of reference and dereference operators in ruby and sitting dumbfounded for a minute, all that complexity and syntax noise just never needed.