[mishmash]

> I don't know enough about Ruby's community to say whether they have their own view about the relative merits of the clever/clean approaches or if they value something else entirely.

Although I think some groups are starting to pick up an anti-clever view of these (the Merb movement probably helped), but you can almost pick any random ruby github project and there will be some custom magic under the hood.

Not saying that's good or bad, just sayin.

[perigrin]

The Perl community has a strong movement of anti-clever, or at least "clever as a last resort" these days. Much of the Modern Perl movement is based upon being solidly engineered over shiny and polished. Take for example Moose's stated policy of prioritizing Correctness over everything else.