...ical Extraction and Reporting Language) is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic program...anguages. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to ma...
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel an...