I think there are a couple of idioms which are a bit more concise in ruby ( <something> unless <condition>, or some of the stuff with blocks), but it's a matter

I think there are a couple of idioms which are a bit more concise in ruby ( <something> unless <condition>, or some of the stuff with blocks), but it's a matter of personal taste, I think. I do agree on the "opaqueness", Python does tend more towards "runnable pseudocode" :)