Re: A plea for a new old language

["Steven Shaw" <address@hidden>]

> After talking to one of my compiler-guru friends, I found out that,
> amazingly enough, you *can* do CPS in C, even without first-class
> functions.  You have to lift the internal lambda expressions to the top
> level and name them, and have an extra argument representing the state
> captured by the lambda, yadda yadda, but it's doable.  I guess Real
> Programmers can write scheme in any language ;-)

It wouldn't be efficient without tail call optimisation though, would it?