From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T06:41:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Recursive Logic - Examples and Resources?

Dan __ wrote:
> Now, I know enough to figure out that I need some recursion here

For those of us who dislike recursion*, it may be worth pointing out 
that anything you can do with recursion, you can also do with iteration 
and a stack.

Dave

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* I've never been able to get my head around recursion. Does that make 
me a bad person, or just a stupid idiot? (Probably the second.) I can't 
see how recursion lines up with the principle of keeping things simple; 
it seems like a recipe for complexity and potential disaster to me. A 
stack, on the other hand, is eminently visualisable and understandable, 
and it's pretty trivial to ensure the stack doesn't grow beyond some 
predefined size. And everyone loves iteration. But millions of computer 
scientists can't be wrong... can they?

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