[gamache]

I used Perl then Ruby as my main language for almost a decade each. These days, I don't really write Ruby anymore; I moved on to Elixir and never looked back. But I still find myself using Perl on the command line, in contexts where Awk or Sed would also make sense. Ruby never optimized for the one-liner case IMO.

[cutler]

I don't understand your last point. `ruby -e` has excellent parity with `perl -e`.