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Re:Today's Email Incident by mhartl on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @11:06PM (#5405355)
Ah, so following Greenspun's tenth rule [1], perhaps we have this:

  Any sufficiently complicated web application contains 
  an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow 
  implementation of half of Ruby on Rails.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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Re:Today's Email Incident by jaggederest on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:31AM (#5405647)
That was my road to Ruby: Developing in PHP "mvc" frameworks. Even had a PHP active record implementation. Create function was used heavily ...

http://php.net/manual/en/function.create-function.php

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Re:Today's Email Incident by larrywright on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @02:11PM (#5409049)
That's probably almost the exact quote I saw :)
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