On May 4, 1:32 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote: > On 5/4/2010 1:45 AM, rickhg12hs wrote: [snip] > > [To bad there's no tail recursion optimization.] 8-( > > That issue is much more complicated than you probably imagine. [snip] No imagination is necessary - functional languages (e.g., Erlang) do it quite well.