He responded directly to a comment I made on yesterday's blog post: I hate that Python doesn't have Tail-Call Optimization, though it does have the best st

He responded directly to a comment I made on yesterday's blog post: I hate that Python doesn't have Tail-Call Optimization, though it does have the best stack traces of any language I've seen, which mostly makes up for it. Not being able to cleverly recurse isn't so bad when you never have to deal with anonymous "you tried to get the head of an empty list" exceptions!