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		mhartl on March 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today's Email Incident Ah, so following Greenspun's tenth rule [1], perhaps we have this: `Any sufficiently complicated web application contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Ruby on Rails.` [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

jaggederest on March 20, 2013 | [–]

That was my road to Ruby: Developing in PHP "mvc" frameworks. Even had a PHP active record implementation. Create function was used heavily ...

http://php.net/manual/en/function.create-function.php

larrywright on March 20, 2013 | [–]

That's probably almost the exact quote I saw :)

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