[jfindley]

I personally also find ruby to have uniquely poor naming - lots of similar methods with overlapping functionality, no consistent style, etc.

That's not to say it's a bad language per se, but as someone who works in lots of different languages, I find ruby to be the one where I'm most likely to fail to guess correctly and have to spend time looking up the method I want.

[weaksauce]

Since it was written by a Japanese fellow originally i think that's where the unique names came from. Upcase and downcase were two that stuck out to me. Overall I like ruby quite a bit though.