DeRailed DSL (was Re: compile-time regex redux)

[Kirk McDonald]

Walter Bright wrote:
> For the record, I know next to nothing about RoR except that:
> 
> 1) RoR has clearly been the "killer app" that has launched Ruby into one 
> of the top languages in use today.
> 
> 2) I thought RoR was a DSL addon to Ruby. Perhaps such supposition was a 
> huge misunderstanding on my part.
> 

Ruby, as a language, is well-suited to defining DSLs within itself. The 
strength of RoR (which speaks to Ruby's power) is that it is both merely 
a Ruby library and a DSL.

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