[jasonlotito]

Purely about aesthetics, I find ruby to be ugly and inconsistent. Every time I hear about how beautiful ruby code, I can't help but laugh. You mention the code in the article, and I can't see how it can be beautiful. I mean, it prefers magic over being explixit. It doesn't try to be consistent. You can at least read the php code. With ruby, you have to infer meaning.

Simply put, ruby is ugly as sin. I much prefer php's syntax. Granted, I also much prefer other C style languages, even objective-c. I mean, that probably says it all. Objective-c is probably on the opposite end of the syntax tree compared to ruby.

[jonahx]

  Simply put, ruby is ugly as sin. I much prefer php's
  syntax. Granted, I also much prefer other C style
  languages, even objective-c. 
  *I mean, that probably says it all.*

Yes. If only you knew how true this was :P