The goal of Ruby is to make programmers happy. I started out to make a programming language that would make me happy, and as a side effect it’s made many, many programmers happy. Especially Web developers. But Ruby hasn’t reached developers who work on embedded devices, mobile devices, controllers, things like that. I hope to make them happy too. -- Matz [1]
Larry Wall's comment recognizes Ruby culture and acknowledges that it is a good thing. Not surprising given that Perl 6, like Ruby is an everything-is-an-object language with a lineage from Smalltalk. Programmer productivity/happiness was one of its goals as well.
Well, Ruby also has quite a bit of lineage in Perl, so there's another layer to that as well. I think a lot of Ruby programmers that are unfamiliar with Perl would be surprised with how similar they are in some respects.
Larry Wall's comment recognizes Ruby culture and acknowledges that it is a good thing. Not surprising given that Perl 6, like Ruby is an everything-is-an-object language with a lineage from Smalltalk. Programmer productivity/happiness was one of its goals as well.
[1]: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/08/31/qa-with-yukihiro-mat...