From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T10:52:34+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

Kero wrote:
> (Some fun w/ Lisp and Ruby: http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz49.html)
> 
> I once had this little conversation with a programmer tha I respect a lot:
> He: "Does Ruby have closures?"
> Me: "Yes"
> He: "Does Ruby have continuations?"
> Me: "Yes"
> He: "So it's basically just Scheme, but with an uglier syntax."
> 
> I had no reply.

Well ... Ruby has closures and continuations, but does it have the third
hallmark of Scheme -- efficient tail recursion?