functional programming

[Steve Holden]

Denys Duchier wrote:
> 
[remarks on the practicality of tail call optimization which
 seemed to overlook the need to retain context for exception
 handling]
>
> ... we should all eat
> shit, since 50 trillion flies can't all be wrong.
> 
I've always felt the popularity of MS Windows
had some relation to this epthet.

regards
 Steve

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