[PRL] [plt-internal] Video of Clojure talk

[Robby Findler]

Well, except I heard a story about contracts from someone at Sun who
seemed to be speaking from first-hand knowledge. :)

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> Contracts in Java suffer from having assertions in the language. My
>> understanding is that Someone Decided that assertions were good enough
>> and now it is just viewed as not important enough to actually make
>> them contracts (my opinions and the opinions of Java users
>> notwithstanding).
>
> Let me guess:
>
> "Tail calls in Java suffer from having loops in the language.  My
> understanding is that Someone Decided that loops were good enough
> and now it is just viewed as not imporant enough to actually make
> them tail calls".
>
> Btw, Dave or anyone else, do you know whether there *is* a JSR on
> tail calls and where it ranks?
>
> S.
>
>