Teaching : Python, Scheme, Java...

[Ian Bicking]

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 02:55, Jean-Paul Roy wrote:
> - Python is bad : tail recursion is not iterative (also astonished at 
> that, I can understand with an interpreter, but compiler ?)

Some would argue that tail recursion is not good for teaching and
understanding, because you loose the call stack.  In the likely event of
a traceback, it can be very confusing if you don't fully indicate how
you got there, or if points upon the path were lost in an optimization.

  Ian