Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> writes:

> IMO, this is completely inappropriate. If the Perlers are going to
> do things to reduce their stack frames, and the Pythonistas are
> going to muck around with recursion limits that help their code run
> at all ... why can't Rubyists reduce or eliminate the recursion
> entirely?

The real question is why the Ruby interpreter doesn't do tail-call
optimization...

> -austin
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