Re: why tail recursion matters

[Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <address@hidden>]

   Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:17:18 -0400
   From: Vadim Nasardinov <el-vadimo@comcast.net>
   To: Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <Guy.Steele@sun.com>
   CC: ll1-discuss@ai.mit.edu
   Subject: Re: why tail recursion matters
   
   Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs wrote:
   
   > ... the cost of programmer A not being able to maintain
   > the code of programmer B when he gets hit by a bus.
   
   While conceding, in principle, that being hit by a bus may
   well hinder one's ability to maintain someone else's code, I
   take issue with your attribution of ...  oh, wait a second -
   that's not what you meant, was it?
   
Alice and Bob, of course.  :-)

--Guy