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George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> writes:
> JVM does not directly support tail calls.  CLR does directly support
> tail calls and so better supports languages that require them.  F# is
> an example of this - there is no ML family language for JVM.

This is apparently a real issue, but I'm not sure why, since tail calls
can be compiled into jumps.  I wonder how Scala, Clojure, and Frege (all
JVM functional languages) deal with it.