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Re:Why don't we use functional programming languages more? (... by philwelch on Sunday October 17, 2010 @10:51PM (#1802181)
Of course I could be wrong and maybe some functional languages define in their spec exactly when tail call elimination must invoked.

Scheme does. I believe it was widely considered an innovation in the field of programming language specification that they specified that.

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