Impressed

[Stuart]

On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 19:09:27 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 19:04:07 UTC, Stuart wrote:
>>
>> Recursion isn't just a security risk - it's a performance hit 
>> as well.
>
> Only in languages without tail call optimizations.

Which is pretty much all of them.

Scheme does it, and probably HOPE too; but bugger-all you could 
write a real program in, like .NET or C++. I mean, we're in 
bloody FORTRAN territory here. What use is that for writing 
Windows applications?

Does D have tail call optimisation?