[Shootout-list] Re: OO (was Re: process creation & message passing)

[Isaac Gouy]

> How about laziness?  It's trivial in Haskell, possible to make fairly
> painless in the ML's and scheme, and can be a pain in the imperative
> languages.

It would be a pain to implement it properly - but we'd only need to
implement just enough to pretend it was sort-of maybe some-kind-of
emulation-of laziness.


> It's accurately reporting that OO that only uses those features in
> language X will be faster than OO using only those those features in
> language Y, because you can't turn off those features in language Y.

This just skipped all around the issue - what's core OO.
It took years for VB to scrape it's way from object-based to
object-oriented. 

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