I just read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/3gkesa/sicp_in_clojure/cu0fzai and there someone says that there is no tail recursion in clojure. AFAIK we have loop recur which "simulates" tail recursion and translates it to a while / for loop under the hood, is that right

I believe that is right.

don’t read the comments

well, sometimes they are very valuable

i’ve come to believe that if they have anything valuable to say, as form of a rebuttal, they should write a blog post about it.

takes much more effort to eloquently explain why the other post was wrong, than to jump in and shout something short and clever.

roberto: Agreed, Still, what I meant are other comments that provide further resources to links, docs, whatever. And, tbh, sometimes I read the comments for the useless flamewars 😄

my favorite example of a flamewar brilliantly plastered in a blog post. http://blog.getify.com/not-all-semicolons