In general, I think Ruby does a good job of being unsurprising. I like that most things work as I'd expect, with the syntax I'd expect. But then you've got weir

In general, I think Ruby does a good job of being unsurprising. I like that most things work as I'd expect, with the syntax I'd expect. But then you've got weird things like `File.read("|ls")` that are entirely surprising.