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Re:Reconsidering the way I explain programming (2020) by siraben on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:54PM (#27980106)
This isn't true if your language does tail-call optimization[0].

> I consider it to be a security risk.

Again, non-issue if your language handles recursion properly (and in some languages like Haskell, "blowing the stack" is not a thing that happens).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call#Implementation_metho...

Re:Reconsidering the way I explain programming (2020) by nights192 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:41AM (#27980309)
I believe he's more concerned about issues where tail-calls aren't possible or attractive.