SICP

Say, someone who has no prior experience with programming, and is at a rather 'young' age (Teen still) wants to get ahead of the game, and start up now, rather than later. Would one go about this by reading SICP? I've seen it linked so many times, I've only got to think it's a start.

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I said that it was a myth that TCO and stack traces were incompatible (that is as a rule, not necessarily in a specific case)
No, you have it backwards. TCO and stacktraces are incompatible by definition, because the raison d'etre of TCO is the elimination of some stack frames. Anything that does not eliminate any stack frames is not TCO, but merely a simulation of stack on the heap.

But I would agree that a sufficiently clever stacktrace compressor could eliminate only uninteresting frames most of the time. It's just that "most of the time" is not good enough for me, when applied to such an important thing as stacktraces.