I was reading through this thread again and I came across this:

> and since it looks like that comments are against Ruby coders' religious belief

Argh! ARGH! ARGH! I have the same problem with python code. They seem to think they don't need to comment anything!

Recently, as part of my job, I had to interface several python programs together. There were almost no comments in the third-party programs, and the code other people on my team write contains no comments at all, other than the occasional "# XX: fixme". I'm the only person who bothers to comment and document anything.

Sorry guys, I don't give a flip about the details of your code. I just need a general idea of what's going on. Reading every last expression because you're too lazy is a waste of my time.

Tying this back to Ruby: I've found Python a bit of a disappointment. It's a nice language and all, but having fooled around with Ruby first, Python's syntax seems to me to be growing hair everywhere.