sick of perl

im old as fuck and ive been using perl for way too long. since perl effectively has no future, which scripting language should I learn to stay modern? I've dabbled in python and haskell a little bit but i don't like FIOC and non c-style syntax. i've also written some ruby in the past and i find it slow and shitty. what do?

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Why the C-syntax requirement? It's noisy as fuck and is only good for statement oriented languages.

Why are you looking for a scripting language anyway? All of them were ham-fistedly designed, and have even more retarded implementations.

If it's for sysadmin shit... then you won't find anything more expedient than Perl, which is built around messy type coercions and file/pipe IO. Sorry.

Otherwise, you have already tried most of your choices. You could look into the JVM for Groovy, or use a proper functional language like an actual Homo Sapiens.

That opens Clojure and OCaml, though I haven't tried the latter personally.