"Marek Janukowicz" <childNOSPAM / t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl>
>  There are some obvious advantages of Ruby over Perl:
>
> - Ruby is fully object oriented
> - blocks
> - introspection
> - very little difference between compile time and runtime
>
> Could you give me some more clues (I am missing a lot for sure)?

-- Ruby has native (and hence very portable) and clean threading support.
-- Ruby has blocks, continuations, closures and bindings.
-- Ruby has open Class structre and highly extensible.