> The hashrocket itself looks bizarre and excessively noisy to people coming from JavaScript or Python or pretty much anything but PHP. Just my experience, but

> The hashrocket itself looks bizarre and excessively noisy to people coming from JavaScript or Python or pretty much anything but PHP. Just my experience, but I have about a decade of professional Python experience and all of 8 months of professional Ruby experience, and while the rocket syntax drives me nuts in PHP, I actually prefer it in Ruby to the 1.9 syntax. > I'm just saying, "only one way to do it" is the Python philosophy Well, there is a lot of effort put into not duplicating functionality in libraries and whatnot, but the actual mantra is: > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. That just means if you need to accomplish a basic task, there should be one obvious solution, it doesn't mean there can't be more than one way to do it. That's how I've always read it, anyway.