Re: Programming languages for the very young

From: Joe Marshall (jrm_at_ccs.neu.edu)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:10:00 -0500

"Michael D. Ober" <obermd-.@.-alum-mit-edu-nospam> writes:

> It's been 20 years since I used Scheme, but I vaguely remember that Scheme
> doesn't readily lend itself to subroutines. Scheme programs tend to be tail
> recursive, making conditional branching the most efficient method for
> subroutine calling.

Depends on whether the `standard' calling conventions are callee or
caller saves, and whether callee or caller pops.