I don't currently use either but Perl6 grammars[0] are pretty dang awesome. If I were writing parsing code and my choices were Ruby or Perl6 I would choose Perl

I don't currently use either but Perl6 grammars[0] are pretty dang awesome. If I were writing parsing code and my choices were Ruby or Perl6 I would choose Perl6 just for the grammars. [0] http://doc.perl6.org/language/grammars http://doc.perl6.org/language/grammars