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A comment on Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (2011).

Re:Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (2011) by jacinabox on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:58PM (#15698054)
They don't need tail calls, unless you're planning on doing idiomatic functional programming in an OO language, which, Why??
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Re:Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (2011) by samth on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:31PM (#15698333)
The answer to your question is the entire point of the blog post, which was written by Guy Steele, who worked on the original design of Java.
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Re:Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (2011) by pjmlp on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:23PM (#15699261)
Smalltalk, the grandaddy of OOP languages uses idiomatic functional programming for its messages.
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Re:Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (2011) by FascinatedBox on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:12PM (#15698182)
Some languages, such as Scala, have a mix of FP and OO concepts. Some FP features make use of TCO, so this helps to make them a first class citizen.
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Re:Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (2011) by jacinabox on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:54PM (#15699532)
Oh yes, my mistake.
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