Re: any ruby programmers who are perl users?

Whee! Inflammatory topic!

1) If you are interested in learning to program for the sake of
programming (vs getting XYZ done), Perl probably isn't the best first
choice. (Not that its the last choice or anything, but not first.) I'd
personally advocate C/C++ or maybe Java. Maybe make Perl a third
choice ;)

2) If you are still picking up Perl and want to get into OOP, its
probably better to stick with Perl and learn OOP rather than starting
in on Ruby. The best way to learn OOP IMHO would be to come up (or get
someone else to) with some sort of OOP project and then go ahead and
implement it.

3) Nope. Never did any Ruby.