Tail recursion considered harmful

I don't believe in recursion as the basis of all programming. This is a fundamental belief of certain computer scientists, especially those who love Scheme and like to teach programming by starting with a "cons" cell and recursion.

Is it really such a big deal to rewrite your function to use a loop?

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Just think how much easier that would have been with TeX. Since /sci/ already has TeX, it would be a small change to allow it on /prog/.

Also, whatever happened about the markdown?