I&#x27;d recommend you take a look. It&#x27;s certainly got some of the features of Ruby that had to be bolted on to Perl 5 (objects, for example), but it&#x27;s still recognizably Perl, and it has a number of features built-in nicely that feel bolted-on or just downright ornery in Ruby (Unicode, concurrency, to mention two big ones). OOP in Perl 6 is beyond anything I&#x27;ve used anywhere else, except maybe Moose on Perl 5 (which is bolted-on).<p>I think the most accurate thing to say is that there has been a lot of cross-pollination between Perl and Ruby, it goes both ways, and it has been going on for the entire life of Ruby and Perl 6. But, Ruby is Ruby and Perl 6 is recognizably a Perl variant.