[plt-scheme] guido on tail recursion

From: Marco Morazan (morazanm at gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 25 18:51:41 EDT 2009

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> Yes.  There are recursive programs that cannot be expressed as iteration.

What are you trying to communicate? The programs we write, including
all recursive programs, are compiled to a von Neumann architecture --
certainly an iterative machine.

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Cheers,

Marco


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