Comment by zephen

3 days ago

It virtue-signals that they're part of the hip functional crowd.

(To be fair, if you are programming functionally, it is essential. But to flat-out state that a language that doesn't support isn't "serious" is a bit rude, at best.)

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mrkeen  2 days ago

Supporting recursion only to a depth of 1000 (or whatever) is equivalent to supporting loops of up to 1000 iterations.

If I put out a language that crashed after 1000 iterations of a loop, I'd welcome the rudeness.

  • Ar-Curunir  2 days ago

    Plenty of languages, including very serious ones like C and Rust, have bounded recursion depth.

    • mrkeen  2 days ago

      Then let me rephrase:

      If every iteration of a while-loop cost you a whole stack frame, then I'd be very rude about that language.

      This works, btw:

        #include <stdio.h>

  long calc_sum(int n, long acc) {
    return n == 0
      ? acc
      : calc_sum(n-1, acc+n);
  }

  int main(void) {
    int iters = 2000000;
    printf("Sum 1...%d = %ld\n", iters, calc_sum(iters, 0));
    return 0;
  }

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