[Edu-sig] Re: Lisp vs Scheme vs Python

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Mon, 28 May 2001 16:11:59 -0400


[Matthias Felleisen]
> No recursion is not gratuitous with quicksort and fractals. It's
> necessary there. Eliminating it means you manage your own stack, and
> I bet you're not as good at that as Guido.

Guido is quite fond of recursion -- the Python implementation is full of it
(a statement you may agree with under an unintended reading <wink>).