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by atburrow 4638 days ago
C isn't a framework.
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dasil003 4638 days ago
C is to low-level OS-independent programming as Rails is to web programming.
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ssmoot 4638 days ago
No it's not.

Ruby/Rails is the past decade's version of VBScript/ASP3. It's not a foundational technology. As huge of a fanboy as I am of Scala/Play, the C comparison would be as unjustifiable with those as well.

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numbsafari 4637 days ago
Yeah, it's probably more appropriate to say that Javascript, HTML and CSS are to web programming what C is to low-level programming.
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dasil003 4637 days ago
Obviously things become less "foundational" as you go higher up the stack.
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numbsafari 4638 days ago
The C standard library is pretty much a framework, isn't it?
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kamaal 4638 days ago
Absolutely not.

If you have done embedded programming you would know C standard library is pretty much a bunch of standard utils to do stuff like copy char arrays, print and do some memory related stuff.

That is hardly a framework.

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