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From: glenn@dit.lth.se (Glenn Jennings)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: recursive =?=> iterative ?
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Date: 17 Jan 91 16:16:43 GMT
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(Sorry if this gets onto "comp.lang.functional" twice...)
Can anyone please point me to any *published* works dealing with this issue:

  Is it easy or hard to automatically transform an algorithm which
  is expressed recursively, into one that is expressed iteratively ?

  Practical results are preferred, but theoretical discussions are still
helpful.  I am guessing that it is hard (in general) to devise a program 
which can convert an arbitrary recursive program into one having only loops.  
  Please reply by email to glenn@dit.lth.se    THANK YOU !
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