One of the reasons I wrote this article was because of exactly the problem that you mention, so I am very happy that you found it interesting! I frequently int

One of the reasons I wrote this article was because of exactly the problem that you mention, so I am very happy that you found it interesting! I frequently interview recent CS graduates, and ask a technical question about techniques for removing recursions; the people who do well on such questions tend to have practical experience writing compilers. A lot of these basic techniques are not covered in undergraduate courses, but they are crucial to understanding how modern programming languages work under the hood. I still have my notes from my fourth year course in continuation passing style from my undergrad days and it was very helpful to me when we started adding these concepts to C#.