Monday, October 24, 2011

Nice line from Splash/OOPSLA

I'm at the Splash conference in Portland. In this morning's Lars Bak talk about the Dart VM, there was a question/answer sequence that went roughly like

Q: What about tail call optimization?
A: Not too likely.  I don't know why you even want that. The biggest problem for me with it is that if you end up in a debugger you can't see where you came from.
Q: Well, you shouldn't be debugging in the first place

That seems to nice sum up some of the differences in approach of different programming communities.

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