When there's no TCO, when to worry about blowing the stack?
- by Cedric Martin
Every single time there's a discussion about a new programming language targetting the JVM, there are inevitably people saying things like:
"The JVM doesn't support tail-call optimization, so I predict lots of exploding stacks"
There are thousands of variations on that theme.
Now I know that some language, like Clojure for example, have a…