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The trend of Rails mimickry continues with recently announced Cake (see also: Perl on Rails and Subway.) While it appears to be very true to the R-iginal, what’s your take on this? Do you subcategorize all P-language clones as a bunch of RaiPs? Or are you delighted at these other P-rogatives?

Ryan Davis is propaply writing Ruby parsers for all the P-ons down in his underground lair wearing his karate smock.