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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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