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A tail-recursive loop handles loops just fine, and is just as efficient. This is a perfect example of the misconceptions that mutable-first programming languages have caused.

> ultimately DRAM is mutable

Ultimately the CPU executes machine code, but I don’t see you directly writing that. You’re cherry-picking to defend an indefensible position.



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