[plt-scheme] Re: Getting wine from water

From: Eric Hanchrow (offby1 at blarg.net)
Date: Wed Jan 10 04:31:24 EST 2007

>>>>> "wooks" == wooks  <wookiz at hotmail.com> writes:

    wooks> If you are writing a compiler in language X that does not
    wooks> support feature Y can your compiler implement feature Y.

Of course.

    wooks> If you are writing a compiler in Java (which does not
    wooks> support tail call optimisation) .........

Think about it -- some Schemes are written in C.  Scheme supports tail
call optimisation.  C doesn't.

-- 
Keaton, Chaplin, Garbo - let them now make room for Gromit.
        A. O. Scott, in The New York Times



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