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		stcredzero on March 14, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask YC: Development-wise, what do you do that's un... The common practice in Smalltalk is to just extend Smalltalk so that it becomes a powerful domain specific language for your application. Most everything in Smalltalk is just an ordinary message send (procedure call) so any good programming where you Don't Repeat Yourself ends up being a domain specific language.

scott_s on March 14, 2008 [–]

Is that where Ruby got this tendency from? I haven't used Ruby yet, but I see this style of development talked about in conjunction with Ruby.

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