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Re:Racket by morphir on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @02:06AM (#1413140)
write factorial in scheme, then in clojure. And you might see an very interesting difference. Hint: the jvm does not have tail call optimization.
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Re:Racket by fierarul on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @09:22AM (#1413802)
As if somebody would pick Scheme over Clojure for tail call optimization alone.

Clojure has a lot of handy stuff and the fact that's built on top of the JVM (with its limitations, indeed) is a major plus.

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