[DonHopkins]

It's true that most popular scripting languages today were influenced by the same scripting (and other types of) languages that Perl was influenced by. Namely shell scripting and Lisp.

What I object to are the terms "most" and "modeled on", each of which are hyperbolic, but taken together are "hyperbolic squared" (to stretch the mathematical metaphor).

And Perl 6 hasn't had much influence at all, since nobody's been able to use it for anything practical in the last 15 years.

At best, Perl 6 has influenced people to learn other languages than Perl, which is a good thing, I suppose.

[ab5tract]

You are really reaching to say that sed/awk/shell and Lisp were more of an influence on either Ruby or PHP. Ruby has all the same special variables as Perl, FFS! PHP was originally written in Perl. But somehow awk was the bigger influence in either case?

Sorry, but your retcon fails. Even Scala admits it has Perl influences -- http://perl8.org.