On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote:
> There's no doubt that in every application-oriented context I've seen, > you can get the job done given the tools that scala and clojure > provide, absent contrived examples. Languages with proper tail-calling are a different paradigm from those that don't provide it, or do so only as an optimization (like gcc). If we don't have tail-calls in our repository of techniques, we simply don't *see* the opportunities to use them, like patients with damage to the visual cortext, who don't complain of being blind because they have lost the very concept of seeing. It's surprising that so modest a change can work such a vast transformation in thinking, but it does, just like the difference between having only subroutines and having coroutines as well. -- GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jvm-languages+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
