Cleaner perlish syntax???

         The perl5-porters and their monkish acolytes huddle around
         camp fires at the base of Mount Imparseable, where Larry
         convenes with the spirit of The More Than One Way. If
         absolute peace is maintained, he will soon return with the
         Three-Hundred-And-Sixty-One Tablets of Perl 6. But as they
         wait, in the pre-dawn East the sickly glow of RUBY grows
         stronger. Yes, Ruby, the language that says it's like
         Smalltalk (but is really cleaner Perlish syntax with
         better-than-Python-OOP and Satherish iteration) has
         traditionally been trapped in Japan by the Great Font
         Divide, unable to vex its Western ancestor. But no more. The
         rods are cast in twain; Addison-Wesley have a book out.
         They've open sourced the reference section, and Dr. Dobbs,
         that gullible old gatekeeper, has even written a tutorial in
         January's issue. Larry is wise, and strong. But remember how
         his one regret was he didn't get to a Christian missionary?
         Guess what Ruby's creator used to be? A missionary in
         Hiroshima, Larry. In Hiroshima.
         http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/02/14/p6p.html
         - ""What *is* going on over there, anyway?", cries ESR
         http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/refman.html
               - the missionary stuff is in comp.lang.ruby (deja RIP)
         http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0101/0101b/0101b.htm
                             - only DDJ would do their URLs in binary