Perl is an awesome program and it creates awesome documents, but the only problem with Perl is its complexity.

Are you aware that Perl and Ruby has a lot of similarities? Read on and learn.

The parentheses are optional and the strings work just the same. There’s a package management system that is similar to CPAN (called Ruby Gems). You can see a lot of commonly used built-ins too. Both programs have Regexes that are built right. Both have embedded doc tools. In Ruby, it is called rdocs, and lastly, there is a general delimited string and regex quoting syntax similar to Perl’s.