[plt-scheme] guido on tail recursion

From: Dimitris Vyzovitis (vyzo at media.mit.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 23 10:23:51 EDT 2009

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Noel Welsh wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo at media.mit.edu> wrote:
>> http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html
>
> I don't much care what choices Guido makes, and his aversion to FP is
> well known. That said, it was like reading something written by a
> Martian. I'm sure his arguments make sense in his world (judging by
> the comments), but they don't make much sense in mine.

I actually chuckled when I first read it -- It reminded me of April's Fool 
prunk that floated a few years back (that was based entirely on a guido 
post).

-- vyzo


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