Funny, it has the best, most complex syntax I have ever used. I don't say this to be reductive. I believe there are two ways to approach a programming languag

Funny, it has the best, most complex syntax I have ever used. I don't say this to be reductive. I believe there are two ways to approach a programming language: either from the formally-correct, highly-specified point of view; or from the communication and linguistics point of view. Ruby has a terrifying formal syntax precisely so that it can be extremely comfortable if you can get yourself to ignore the formality. The flexibility fits my brain extremely well, and most of the time the theoretical syntactic complexity just isn't an issue.