From: chain_lube@...
Date: 2004-07-17T20:57:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Ruby (Re: Why I don't use Ruby.)

Mikael Brockman <phubuh@phubuh.org> wrote in message news:<87llhx2hec.fsf@phubuh.org>...

> Lots of functional languages lack pattern matching.  Scheme, for
> example.  One can write Scheme-styled code in Ruby.

Not quite true. Scheme itself lacks any "pattern matching" facility,
though.

However, there is one sound Scheme distribution which includes
pattern-matching: it is called "Bigloo".

Bigloo was also used for the new PhP compiler (see slashdot).

By the way: Bigloo has also types!

I use Bigloo for numerical computations in physics.

Fensterbrett