[ashtonkem]

Ruby’s heavier use of key words rather than symbols saves it from the worst of Perl.

Yes, there’s still some symbols, but nowhere near as many.

[wrp]

The "line noise" aspect of Perl never bothered me, because I'm already a heavy user of regexes. The cause of my misery was Perl's "There Is More Than One Way To Do It."

[cutler]

TIMTOWTDI is what I loved about Perl and the reason I found the transition to Ruby so enjoyable.

[allis10]

For what it's worth, non-alphanumeric Ruby is Turing-complete: https://ideone.com/55WtMM

[qiqitori]

Explanation: https://threeifbywhiskey.github.io/2014/03/05/non-alphanumer...