The Fortress blog has a recent post, Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls, where Guy Steele argues for the necessity of proper tail call implementations without rehashing two of the classic arguments: state machines and the continuation passing style.
It starts by mentioning William Cook's On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited:
stack inspectionWhy Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail CallsLambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:03
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