I consider Ruby, for example, a more evolved Perl in a lot of ways. Hopefully not in strength of module system, automated testing, extension mechanisms that ar

I consider Ruby, for example, a more evolved Perl in a lot of ways. Hopefully not in strength of module system, automated testing, extension mechanisms that aren't monkeypatching, quality of core development practices, metaprogramming (if you count Moose or p5-MOP), documentation, lexical scoping, or Unicode support.