[ek750]

Exactly. Once you get some basics of Ruby, there is no ambiguity, and I find it quite elegant.

And I think I’m in the minority here, but I prefer the cleanliness of optional punctuation.

That feature also allows for fluent DSLs (which seem to be falling out of favor for various reasons), but is one of the reasons I still love Ruby.

To look at the other side, I hate having to constantly add semicolons and parens in other languages. Makes my poor fingers hurt even more than they usually do.