Comment by tel

The fact the Ruby syntax was mostly derived by what could be made to have auto-indentation in regex in a week in emacslisp is interesting. More than that, it's interesting that Matz seems to ascribe a lot of Ruby's success to it.

    If I couldn't make ruby-mode to work the syntax of 
    Ruby would have changed to more C-like one too 
    similar to other scripting languages as a result, 
    Ruby would not have gained current popularity

I've heard that Ruby's parsing code is especially difficult to replicate.