From: Gunther Diemant <g.diemant@...>
Date: 2011-11-04T06:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Recursion WTF!

2011/11/2 Sam Rose <samwho@lbak.co.uk>:
> Recursion is a really great tool for problems like this :) I think the
> example is a little bit contrived, though. Counting the land tiles is
> nothing that a simple loop or two couldn't solve. However, I suppose
> he is trying to illustrate a point.

I think its not about counting all land tiles, instead it counts
connected land tiles (containing the start point).
This problem isn't so easy to solve with a simple loop.