[edwinnathaniel]

But that's the thing y'know... It's not just about DSL but it's also Ruby's syntax that include lots of symbols (of course DSL made the learning curve increase as well).

By symbol I mean the use of tilda, pound sign, ampersand colon.

Seems to me that it's more of personal preference than anything else and this is why for me personally, Ruby is pretty close to Perl.

Somehow I prefer verbose than too terse. I prefer to read the code in words than in mix of words and symbols.