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Eliminating Tail Calls in Python Using Exceptions

I was working through Kyle Miller‘s excellent note: “Tail call recursion in Python”, and decided to experiment with variations of the techniques. The idea is: one may want to eliminate use of the Python language call-stack in the case of a “tail calls” (a function call where the result is […]

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Some programming language theory in R

Let’s take a break from statistics and data science to think a bit about programming language theory, and how the theory relates to the programming language used in the R analysis platform (the language is technically called “S”, but we are going to just call the whole analysis system “R”). […]

Estimated reading time: 19 minutes

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Eliminating Tail Calls in Python Using Exceptions

Some programming language theory in R

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