True, my problem with Ruby is stuff like having select/filter/find_all or map/collect and then frameworks also inventing their own conventions and this somehow being ruby philosophy. Also naming conventions like to_i to_a to_s to_h. And then the scoping rules. I'm not a fan of the language or the design philosophy and will avoid in all future projects.

As for calling it retarded - it's the emotion it evokes, I don't find it particularly offensive - but thankfully I'm not from the pronoun declaring part of the world.