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by bsder 465 days ago
> I'm interested in examining the idea of a programming language that eschews the notion of a callstack and returns to having a single fixed activation record per function.

Welcome to the old 8-bit C compilers.

Everything was statically allocated so no recursion. The downside is that you can only have a single thread of execution.

It would be interesting to see what that would look like if extended to multiple threads (they would have to be defined/allocated at compile time).