> In English, when you say while A, B" it means "as long as condition A is fulfilled, condition B is also fulfilled". Like "while the window is open, the room is getting colder".

> But then in programming, that's not how it works. "while the stream is not closed..." what? A variable called symbols is being assigned. That's an action - so how often does it happen? Once or multiple times? Can the code be after the while run in parallel or only sequential? And don't even get me started with forgetting to close the stream

Ruby has the "until" keyword as an alternative to "while not" (similar to but not as commonly needed as "unless" for "if not"). I've honestly always kind of liked Ruby's willingness to go out of its way to try to make things like this more natural, but sadly I think I'm in the minority on this one.

The one that always feels the most funky to me is whenever I have to invert `is_empty` in some way; I wish that languages would standardize having a method that means the opposite purely for aesthetic reasons, which I suspect would be wildly unpopular with everyone else besides me due to being seen as "redundant".