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?

As far as functional languages go (and I definitely recommend you learn at least one) I personally like Scheme and Haskell. Functional languages are good because although they aren't as intuitive as imperative languages (and so require some lateral thinking) they allow you to express solutions in a very neat manner due to a lot of features that can't really be expressed with imperative syntax. For that reason, they often end up being much more concise, although imperative languages like C are usually a little faster (but I would sacrifice speed for ease of expression because the latter leads to better maintainability which often leads to improved performance anyway).