You got two things wrong there: > weird sub signatures No core signatures, but modules on CPAN that make signatures available. > faked OO The OO in Perl wor

You got two things wrong there: > weird sub signatures No core signatures, but modules on CPAN that make signatures available. > faked OO The OO in Perl works almost identically to the one in Python, and i assume Ruby is similar too. The difference is that OO syntax sugar is implemented in core in Python and Ruby, while in Perl it is implemented in Perl directly and available on CPAN but in core. There's nothing fake about it. As for your conclusion: I have the strong suspicion that the difference lies less in the language itself [1], but more in the fact that with tryruby you had a modern learning resource available that taught a good coding style; while pretty much all Perl learning written before February 2012 are mainly based on material originating in the early 90ies. [2] [1] The main Ruby implementation doesn't even have multi-core-capable threads, but uses something that's basically a VM-level event system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads [2] http://perl-tutorial.org/ http://perl-tutorial.org/