From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2012-04-02T11:52:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44058] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6242] Ruby should support lists

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On Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:
> shugo (Shugo Maeda) wrote:
> > =20
> > But the following comment reminded me that Ruby was originally Smallt=
alk, not a LISP.
> > =20
> > http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/03/haters-gonna-hate-tail-call-optimizat=
ion/=23comment-103406
> =20
> I used to think so too, until I saw this:
> =20
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/336646
> =20
> =20
> Clearly Ruby has been a stealth-Lisp all along.
> =20
Ah=21 Our old friend Pascal=E2=80=A6 I remember him well. I ran across hi=
m not to long ago. Seems he's moved on to Lua now: http://article.gmane.o=
rg/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/81364/match=3D =20

:)
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                <div><span style=3D=22color: rgb(160, 160, 168); =22>On S=
unday, April 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:</span></div>
                <blockquote type=3D=22cite=22 style=3D=22border-left-styl=
e:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;=22>
                    <span><div><div><div>shugo (Shugo Maeda) wrote:</div>=
<blockquote type=3D=22cite=22><div><div><br></div><div>But the following =
comment reminded me that Ruby was originally Smalltalk, not a LISP.</div>=
<div><br></div><div><a href=3D=22http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/03/haters-g=
onna-hate-tail-call-optimization/=23comment-103406=22>http://www.jwz.org/=
blog/2012/03/haters-gonna-hate-tail-call-optimization/=23comment-103406</=
a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I used to think so too, un=
til I saw this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href=3D=22http://blade.nagaok=
aut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/336646=22>http://blade.nagaokaut=
.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/336646</a></div><div><br></div><div=
><br></div><div>Clearly Ruby has been a stealth-Lisp all along.</div><div=
><br></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>Ah=21 Our old friend Pasc=
al=E2=80=A6 I remember him well. I ran across him not to long ago. Seems =
he's moved on to Lua now:&nbsp;<a href=3D=22http://article.gmane.org/gman=
e.comp.lang.lua.general/81364/match=3D=22>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.=
comp.lang.lua.general/81364/match=3D</a>
                </div><div><br></div><div>:)</div>
            
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