Probably. In terms of features, Ruby is pretty much an unholy mix of Smalltalk, Perl, Awk with a dash of Lisp thrown in and a parser that's a monstrosity of epic proportions put on top (the MRI 1.8.x series had a Bison parser with 6k-7k lines of C to implement context-sensitive tweaks...) to make the whole thing have a syntax palatable for those of us who'd otherwise complain loudly about square brackets or parentheses...

And I write this as someone who loves Ruby - there's much to love about Ruby, but a clean design is not it.