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Re:Ask HN: what language should I learn next? by manny on Thursday July 17, 2008 @12:29PM (#248658)
No Perl fans here?

Shame. :(

I, then, humbly suggest Perl. You might like it, and with your Ruby background it shouldn't be hard to pick up.

Re:Ask HN: what language should I learn next? by raffi on Thursday July 17, 2008 @02:43PM (#248887)
Try learning to write mobile code in Sleep. Its like Perl with anonymous functions all over the place.

http://sleep.dashnine.org/

Actually, its my language. Couldn't resist the opportunity to plug it.