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9rxlast Wednesday at 2:33 PM1 replyview on HN

> Rails can't be rewritten in C

It could if you added message passing to C.

Which we have, and DHH admits that Rails took directly from that. Rails is (loosely) a rewrite of what was originally written in C [with extensions].


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kristianplast Thursday at 5:25 AM

> Rails is (loosely) a rewrite of what was originally written in C [with extensions].

Are you talking about WebObjects, which was written in Objective-C? (1) If so your comment is somewhat tangential to the truth.

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