Learning Ruby: From Zero to Hero

I don't encourage people to learn Ruby. I spent a long time (months) trying to learn it. I still don't tell people I know it.

I used to think that Ruby's syntax is twice as much to learn - now I think it might be even more than that.

Maybe one reason why is that Ruby's YACC file is ~918 lines long[0], while Python's grammar file is 149 lines long.

    ~$ wc cpython/Grammar/Grammar 
     149  879 6472 cpython/Grammar/Grammar

Even if 1/2 of Ruby's grammar output is whitespace, that's more than twice as much grammar to learn as Python's grammar[1].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/16629318/541136

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html