[merrua]

ruby does begin, end. But maybe you were joking? ruby does ommit where it can though.

[mojuba]

Essentially Ruby does only `end` and so does e.g. the Unix shell. I still prefer { } because it stands out in the text better.

I should have mentioned verbosity in declarations too, it's not just begin ... end.

And I do miss a few of Pascal's neat features, such as using an enum type as an array index type.