[Tutor] General Programming Question

[Eugene Leitl]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:

> Recursion is all - other loop constructs are not mentioned.

Recursion doesn't necessarily have to be expensive, if not resulting in
excessive stack frame allocation (the evils of C strike here). Also, tail
recursion (the thing SICP usually does) is usually compiled into a simple
jump.

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