Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Michael Hudson]

"Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g at Virginia.EDU> writes:

[tail recursion]
> It required in Scheme, and I think it's required in Common Lisp,

It isn't.  You generally get it if you declare low values for debug,
but I don't think you can rely on it.

Cheers,
M.

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