[pmontra]

Yes, some developers like to be needlessly clever and do in Ruby things that they would never do in PHP or Java. I also lost time deciphering some clever metaprogramming.

It is more about the developer than the language though. I go with simple solutions no matter which language I use. I worked on some old code of mine last week (it was Python) and I couldn't understand it immediately. I fixed a problem and I'll rewrite part of it this week to make it clear what it does. It will also lower the chances of bugs.