From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-10-04T05:22:43+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:

> 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?

Implementation detail.  But I really wish it did...

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