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by 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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