Python will also do something like that, specifically it snips out repeated lines in self-recursive calls: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/71010 https:

Python will also do something like that, specifically it snips out repeated lines in self-recursive calls: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/71010 https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/71010 >>> a() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<stdin>", line 3, in a File "<stdin>", line 3, in a File "<stdin>", line 3, in a [Previous line repeated 894 more times] File "<stdin>", line 2, in a File "<stdin>", line 2, in b File "<stdin>", line 2, in c File "<stdin>", line 2, in c File "<stdin>", line 2, in c [Previous line repeated 97 more times] RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded Sadly it's not smart enough to handle indirect recursion, so in those cases you get a thousand lines of garbage.