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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language
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Date: 12 Mar 88 20:28:00 GMT
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>I would not be so worried about the efficiency of passing values to and
>from functions on non stack-based machines and be more worried about how
>you are going to implement efficiently a language which allows recursion
>(C, Pascal, etc.) on a non stack-based machine. 

Why should the 90% of all applications that are non-recursive (you can
check it out at link time) pay for recursion?