Well, this is only half the battle. The rest of it should be that it's running on a stack of apple //e motherboards.
Now that would be perverse.
seeing the PHP monstrosity Ruby has as an equivalent straightens my feelings of what an ugly language Ruby in it intrinsic nature is
You realize that this logic can be applied, in reverse, to make a similar conclusion about PHP, right? Seeing the monstrous PHP code that equates to simple Ruby statements confirms my feelings about what a poorly designed language PHP is. (For example)
yes, i understand, Friday, end of the week, the humor storage got depleted somewhere around Wednesday.
This is an unavoidable part of compilation; there's no way a compiler could write code as well as a human. It applies to all compilers; a human programmer writing assembly language would be hard-pressed to understand the output of a C compiler.
totally agree with that statement, look at the massive output in php vs the simple readable rb code