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Critique of the Lisp Recursive Factorial Example

While the Lisp recursive factorial function elegantly demonstrates the concept of recursion, it faces practical issues. For large inputs, the deep recursive calls may lead to stack overflow or performance degradation if tail-call optimization is not applied. This highlights a broader philosophical concern: even elegant, self-referential models (like recursion) can become unwieldy when applied without consideration of their limitations in real-world contexts.

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