Peter Naur has died

Re:Peter Naur has died by Sirenos on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:39PM (#10834030)

The grandparent was right, in a sense, because while Rails definitely is not a standalone language on its own, it is an embedded DSL since you are working at a much higher level of abstraction than what Ruby offers out-of-the-box.

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Re:Peter Naur has died by akshatpradhan on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:06AM (#10843535)

You could say the same about Ruby and C.

>Ruby is a DSL for C since you are working at a much higher level of abstraction than what C offers out of the box.

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Re:Peter Naur has died by Sirenos on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:08AM (#10843549)

I don't think that's how it works. Ruby is general-purpose, unlike Rails, which solves a very specific problem by building on top of core Ruby.

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