The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/10/12 3:02 PM, Russel Winder 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...

D has only the tail recursion, not the tail call. The latter should be 
easy to implement.

Andrei