Just started learning Clojure a day ago with Stuart's book I found that Clojure doesn't do tail recursion optimization, not at least for the most simplest form. Instead the call must be made to recur instead of the function itself.
However in the more-or-less-the-same-camp Scala does such optimization (not for the case with ta which Clojure's FAQ claims that "if JVM doesn't we can't do anything". I don't know how exactly Scala does this however using special form "recur" is very ugly and makes quite a bit of functional programming very pointless (just look at the famous 'fib'.) Or I am just plain wrong.
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