From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T19:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: A Ruby-relevant quote from Alan Kay

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
 
> Ruby did get some other stuff right, such as having continuations in
> the language, but I don't think that sort of thing was much of a factor
> in its success. There will be a day when we nobody will take a language
> without continuations seriously, but that day is not here yet. (And the
> day where nobody takes seriously a language without type inference is
> even further away.)

I'm just waiting for the day when no one will take a language without
closures seriously.

martin