On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> [...] Their implementors will argue that deep recursions don’t exist or 
> shouldn’t be supported. [...]

Python's argument for not supporting tail-call optimization (if I
should call it that way after this thread) is that it makes it fail to
produce an informative ``Traceback''.   That's what I remember from an
interview done with Guido van Rossum.  (I don't recall any other
reasons.)

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