Impressed

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 19:04:07 UTC, Stuart wrote:
> On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 16:28:50 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>
>> But this advantage is unimportant since arbitrary deep 
>> recursion is a security risk (especially for servers that 
>> typically use threads with tiny stacks).
>
> I would like to point out here that the example VB.NET code I 
> just gave for lazy-populating a list of all files on a drive 
> uses NO recursion whatsoever.
>
> Recursion isn't just a security risk - it's a performance hit 
> as well.

Only in languages without tail call optimizations.