begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:38:15PM -0700: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >I wonder: Do functional programming languages have tricks to avoid the > >performance penalty of function calls (that I believe to be) typical of > >procedural languages? > > Yes. Tail recursion is one of the coolest ones.
Heh. Turn it around... "Do imperative language have tricks that afford the clarity advantages of functional languages?" "Yes. They have stacks." -- Don't mind me, I'm just amusing myself. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
