From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach) Date: 2007-07-19T12:01:01+09:00 Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe In message <469ED03E.3040505@cesmail.net>, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes: >Well ... they *are* talking seriously about dumping Call/CC. How many >Ruby programmers, or, for that matter, C programmers, actually use >recursion, even tail recursion? Recursion has been mainstream in >programming languages since Algol 60, but how many people actually use >it outside of Lisp/Scheme and other functional languages? man qsort -s