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		Raphael on June 13, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Would you guys visit a purely hacker-orien... What? I thought nearly all languages supported tail recursion.

blasdel on June 13, 2009 [–]

Yes, but in language implementations without TCO, it's just recursion.

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