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Comment by Gibbon1

Winging off a comment above, I find recursion generally intuitive, occasionally useful, and really really boring.

Offhand years ago I used a dialect of C that had no recursion so I can see both sides of this argument. On the one hand, there is a pain point when you don't have access to recursion. On the other, boy can a compiler that eschews recursion produce small and fast code. (Because without recursion the call graph is acyclic)

parent Gibbon1 11 years ago

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