Fibonacci series recursion error

[Hans Georg Schaathun]

On 02 May 2011 16:41:37 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
  <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
:  You must be new to the Internet then :)

OK.  Maybe I heard something worse last time I was an active news users,
years ago.

Anyway, most of the silly things I hear do not qualify as arguments :-)

:  The problem is, once you include side-effects, recursion and iteration 
:  are *not* identical. Specifically, the opposition to tail-recursion 
:  optimization in Python is that it plays havoc with the tracebacks you get 
:  in the event of an exception. The argument goes:

Thanks for the comprehensive background.  I can see the point that
python may be harder to optimise correctly during compilation than
many other languages.

:  Regardless of whether you agree with the arguments or not, they're hardly 
:  "silly".

I only called one argument silly, namely the one about iterative 
rewriting being so simple that it is not an issue.  Sometimes it isn't,
but sometimes it is.

The other arguments are valid.  And they make me lean more towards
more static, compiled languages without the excessive run-time 
dynamism of python.

-- 
:-- Hans Georg