From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-10-09T01:58:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

> > Does anybody on this list have experience with any of the copycat
> > frameworks?
>
> Starting a thread with a pejorative assertion is going to seriously
> distort the responses.
...
> Yes, Rails has motivated some to go create (for better or worse) similar
> tools.  But others were already in the works and evolved in parallel
> with Rails.  And *all* of them have copped ideas and techniques from
> prior work.

well, that's a good point. many similar frameworks aren't actually
copycats, and tarring them with that brush is definitely pejorative.
my bad.

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Giles Bowkett
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