Isn't it a balance? VB6 code was easy to understand on one level, but its lack of expressiveness lead to a lot more code. On the other hand when I look at Rub

Isn't it a balance? VB6 code was easy to understand on one level, but its lack of expressiveness lead to a lot more code. On the other hand when I look at Ruby code there is too much syntactic sugar for a non-ruby programmers to understand it without looking some thing sup.