shugo (Shugo Maeda) wrote:
> 
> But the following comment reminded me that Ruby was originally Smalltalk, not a LISP.
> 
> http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/03/haters-gonna-hate-tail-call-optimization/#comment-103406

I used to think so too, until I saw this:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/336646


Clearly Ruby has been a stealth-Lisp all along.


:)