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Well, he's off conceptually on a lot of the "hates" (like the new method rant), but it's kind of interesting.

elsif drives me crazy as well. One extra letter was too much, I guess.

Lots of personal opinion peeves, but most people coming from different languages (C# in my case) had to deal with them. Eventually the good traits outweighs the bad.

The only one I think is crazy is the complaint about 0-based indexes. What language besides the universally despised VB does 1-based indexes on arrays?

Good article though

Pascal (at least by default, you can specify the startindex at creationtime in modern versions, a neat trick), Modula, I think Fortran too.

If the posters inaccuracies didn't clearly indicate that he/she is new to the language, I would complain that this is innacurate and/or lame. But that said, not everybody is going to like a language and people can grow to dislike something as they learn about it, just try something else.

For myself, I don't mind the elsif. As for 0 based arrays, who cares? So long as it works as universally the same so that we don't have to remember which language uses which; 0 is pretty much the standard, with VB and PL/SQL the only exceptions I know of.

For me Ruby reminds me of a saying I heard about democracy. 'Its the worst system of government there is, except for everything else.'