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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by gpawl on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:10AM (#13864920)
You know who else doesn't allow recursion? NASA.

Knowing the exact size of your stack statically is hugely important in safety-critical software.

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

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Re:The Mumps Programming Language by raverbashing on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:06AM (#13875040)
Except one is running in very limited hardware thousands of kilometers from earth, the other one running on Earth on commodity hardware

This is plain incompetence on the "language" developers.

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