From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-07-07T03:27:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Ruby (Re: Why I don't use Ruby.)

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Ruby doesn't optimize this tail recursion, but Scheme does. That's one 
> way Scheme could be said to be more "functional".

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Presentations/ecoop2004.pdf
suggests that no language should be called properly OO unless it does
tail call optimisation :)

martin