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I'm not sure I'd say that Ruby has a clear syntax. It's better than its predecessor, Perl, but there is a reason everyone uses the same parser code when they s

I'm not sure I'd say that Ruby has a clear syntax. It's better than its predecessor, Perl, but there is a reason everyone uses the same parser code when they start a new Ruby VM -- it's a complicated mess. You certainly can write Ruby with a subset of its syntax that isn't a mess, but no one does. See Scheme and Io for examples of clear, simple syntax.

aangjie 15y ago
Agreed. I haven't learnt ruby properly just read some code trying to fix a bug, but am no fan of ruby syntax. Neither am I of shell, but then shell is ubiquitous.And don't even get me started on perl :-). Ofcourse, my favourite language(syntax-wise) is python so far.