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From: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell)
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Subject: sloan's reply to benson's reply to sloan's reply to benson's reply
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Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 23:48:41 EST
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From: Gary Cottrell  
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 1984  14:28 EST
From: SLOAN%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA
Subject: tail recursion: forwarded reply

Gary-
 Of course, Mr. Benson knows that ALL time bombs are, by definition,
waiting to go off.
 As to the essentially recursive nature of TCA, I simply note that
this view requires a stack of dogs; in my experience stacks of dogs
engage in an entirely different form of behavior, which, under the
proper parity conditions, is truly recursive.
-Ken


[If anyone is Really Tired of This, I will stop sending this rather
convoluted conversation between two friends of mine who don't know
each other but apparently should -gwc]