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		billsix on Jan 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SICP in Clojure > Maybe that is the reason why Clojure has growing industry adoption while scheme does not what is "that"? the lack of tail call optimization?

reitzensteinm on Jan 18, 2014 [–]

Indirectly, yes. Lack of TCO is a byproduct of being on the JVM, but the JVM is the biggest reason why you can write production systems in Clojure today.

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