I know it is very much my issue and probably some kind of PTSD, but having had to manage, customize/extend very large, very badly written Rails projects (which

I know it is very much my issue and probably some kind of PTSD, but having had to manage, customize/extend very large, very badly written Rails projects (which I inherited because of acquisitions), the sight of Ruby syntax makes me slightly ill. I find it hard to read somehow; it feels messy, even in trivial examples, and that comes from someone who wrote a lot of k and Perl and likes k/j/apl.