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by pyre 5404 days ago

  > you're looking at developer preferences for spacing
  > and operators
Not really. For example, in languages that use $ (e.g. Perl, PHP) to denote a variable, that's not developer preference. I'm actually surprised that there aren't more operators being used in Ruby. Though I'm not a Ruby programmer, it does not look as devoid of punctuation characters as the heatmap suggests.