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		Sirenos on Jan 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peter Naur has died 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.

akshatpradhan on Jan 5, 2016 [–]

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.

Sirenos on Jan 5, 2016 | [–]

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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