The explosion of domain-specific languages that we've seen in the Ruby space in the last few years, from Capistrano for deployment to Sinatra for web apps, woul

The explosion of domain-specific languages that we've seen in the Ruby space in the last few years, from Capistrano for deployment to Sinatra for web apps, would seem to contradict your statement. A friendly language helps with and encourages friendly programming but does not guarantee it. Rails itself contains several nice, simple APIs that hide extremely complex implementations. Simplicity is not the same thing to everyone.