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quietbritishjim 2 days ago

The sibling comment already answered your question, but just to add: As I mentioned earlier, this was actually how old programming languages worked. Famously(ish), Dijkstra secretly snuck recursive functions into the ALGOL 60 standard, thus forcing compiler authors to use a stack!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131664