I suspect the influence of Smalltalk and Perl on Ruby kept it from being more SOV-ish. Too bad, since I actually have an odd preference for SOV and OSV grammars

I suspect the influence of Smalltalk and Perl on Ruby kept it from being more SOV-ish. Too bad, since I actually have an odd preference for SOV and OSV grammars. They're easier on my brain. I think "backwards of" gets the point across alright for an English version of "."/no.