Both Ruby and Javascript seem be from the camp of adding more language features and alternate syntax to make it easier for programmers to express themselves. T

Both Ruby and Javascript seem be from the camp of adding more language features and alternate syntax to make it easier for programmers to express themselves. They are happy to put in multiple ways to do something and support multiple paradigms in an effort to make things as easy as possible for as many programmers as possible. When contrasted with Python, C, or other languages that have more strict syntax you may realize that there's a cost to having so many features. The interactions between all those parts of the grammar get very complicated.