[riteshpatel]

I could just never get used to Ruby syntax and how wordy it is.

PHP/C/perl-style syntax just feels much nicer/more natural to write and I've never been able to break out of that.

I guess it comes down to personal preference and what you started coding with.

[cutler]

Ruby "wordy" compared with PHP? You have to be joking. PHP is pseudo-Java in terms of verbosity. It's even worse than Java with its culture of space-wasting blank lines and fanfold doc comments.