The article doesn't mention Perl at all but it did have some direct influences on Ruby. Even Ruby's trailing blocks syntax are an homage to Perl's block list s

The article doesn't mention Perl at all but it did have some direct influences on Ruby. Even Ruby's trailing blocks syntax are an homage to Perl's block list subroutines: # first Ruby example in article users.select { |u| u.admin? }.map(&:email) # using Perl's block list map {$_->email} grep {$_->is_admin} @users;