The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[Gour]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:02:03 +0100
Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> Hummm... the really core issue is whether the language supports tail
> call optimization.  Functional programming languages demand it, C,
> C++, Java, Go, Python definitely don't have it, D...

Isn't it because they have to use recursion instead of iteration?


Sincerely,
Gour


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