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[John Quigley]

dkixk at earthlink.net wrote:
> This has nothing to do with "highly optimized code" in the sense of C being optimized.

Yea, that was a poor statement on my part, and was meant as a mildly 
sarcastic remark ('mildly,' because I do system development in C, and I 
do like the language).

The point I didn't take time to develop in that email: that a Lisp's 
lack of tail-call optimization at the compiler level isn't an important 
issue for me.  Nor does it prevent me from writing code in a functional 
way.  While it puts more responsibility on the developer, having the 
choice of using standard recursion can be beneficial (if you want 
complete stack back-traces, for instance).

- John Quigley