From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T18:50:51+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

On 7/19/07, Peter Seebach <seebs@seebs.net> wrote:
> In message <469ED03E.3040505@cesmail.net>, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes:
> >Well ... they *are* talking seriously about dumping Call/CC. How many
> >Ruby programmers, or, for that matter, C programmers, actually use
> >recursion, even tail recursion? Recursion has been mainstream in
> >programming languages since Algol 60, but how many people actually use
> >it outside of Lisp/Scheme and other functional languages?
>
> man qsort
There is no indication of recursion in the man page.

But I have nothing against recursion.

Robert
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