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Re: Scsh (a Unix Scheme shell) FAQ

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Subject: Re: Scsh (a Unix Scheme shell) FAQ
From: Yoann Padioleau <padiolea@cripure.irisa.fr>
Date: 16 Jan 2003 16:08:25 +0100
Organization: IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE
David Rush <drush@aol.net> writes:

> Yoann Padioleau <padiolea@cripure.irisa.fr> writes:
> > David Rush <kumo@bellsouth.net> writes:
> > > Yoann Padioleau <padiolea@cripure.irisa.fr> writes:
> > > > I am not sure call/cc was in scheme from the beginning. 
> > > 
> > > Full TCO *was* and that is *much* more important.
> > 
> > TCO =  ???
> 
> Tail Call Optimization. A key feature of Scheme, which (along with
> lexical scoping) enables pretty much the entire rest of the language
> spec. Do you actually understand Scheme *at all*?

Yes i understand scheme, it is not because i dont know
all the acronym that i dont know about tail call optimisation.

This is because i know scheme, ml, haskell, c, ... that i can say
 "the only truly advantage of scheme over other langage is its
  powerful macro system".


> 
> > > > Sure, because they dont know what they are talking about.
> > > PKB
> > pkb = ?
> 
> Pot. Kettle. Black.
> 
> From the proverbial "that's the pot calling the kettle `black'".

i am not english, so dont understand this proverb, but that is not really 
important.
> 
> david rush

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