Stackless Python, Tail Recursion and Functional Programming

[beno]

At 03:48 PM 1/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:18:05 -0400, in comp.lang.python you wrote:
>
> >Hi;
> >Someone wrote me from this list advising me to drop my passion for
> >functional programming because Python doesn't optimize for it. Then I
> >remembered Cameron Laird's *Stackless Python*. Doesn't this take care of
> >this problem by converting the stack into a tree, just like XSLT?
>
>Yes, it takes care of the recursion problem. It's _Christian Tismer_
>who wrote it, however.

Okay, okay, apologies to Christian Tismer already <g>. But now I almost 
feel like taking a poll because I've received so many conflicting reports 
<g>. Guess I'll have to dig a little deeper.
Thanks,
beno