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Thu Sep 15 20:19:48 EDT 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/331806.html

In article <7xpsrb78tn.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin  <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>
>Every serious FP language implementation optimizes tail calls and thus
>using recursion instead of iteration doesn't cost any stack space and
>it probably generates the exact same machine code.

While that's true, one of the reasons Guido has historically rejected
this optimization is because there are plenty of recursive algorithms
not amenable to tail-call optimization.
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