From: "Wayne E. Seguin" <wayneeseguin@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T00:18:11+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

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On Jul 18, 2007, at 22:44 , M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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?

I use recursion regularly, it's a phenomenal way of supporting nested  
hash processing (one example).

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