I consider Ruby, for example, a more evolved Perl in a lot of ways.
Hopefully not in strength of module system, automated testing, extension mechanisms that aren't monkeypatching, quality of core development practices, metaprogramming (if you count Moose or p5-MOP), documentation, lexical scoping, or Unicode support.
Hopefully not in strength of module system, automated testing, extension mechanisms that aren't monkeypatching, quality of core development practices, metaprogramming (if you count Moose or p5-MOP), documentation, lexical scoping, or Unicode support.