From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-07-07T03:30:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Ruby (Re: Why I don't use Ruby.)

Martin DeMello wrote:
> 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 :)

Heh. I hereby pronounce that no language is truly OO unless its name
starts with an R and ends with a Y.


Hal