Agreed. I'm not going to say whether Ruby syntax is nice or not, but its use of parser generators is not a model of simplicity: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/bl

Agreed. I'm not going to say whether Ruby syntax is nice or not, but its use of parser generators is not a model of simplicity: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/parse.y https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/parse.y https://whitequark.org/blog/2013/04/01/ruby-hacking-guide-ch-11-finite-state-lexer/ https://whitequark.org/blog/2013/04/01/ruby-hacking-guide-ch... It also changes syntax in patch level versions: https://github.com/whitequark/parser https://github.com/whitequark/parser.