I don't have much to add to this but Ezra's saying things that are true: Tim Bray is spreading more misinformation about tail recursion. He describes it this way: It looks like a subroutine call, but in the case where it occurs as the last thing...

I'm not sure how many users I have of my json.plt PLaneT package, nor how many of them read my blog. But I thought I'd see if I could take a straw poll here. I'm thinking about changing the data definition in a backwards-incompatible way. What if I...

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