"Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:43:56 -0600, rumours say that Mike Meyer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: > > >Assembler was better - at least you had recursion with > >assembler. > > You had recursion with BASIC --what you probably mean is that you had no > stacked parameters (unless you imitated that with using an indexed > array). > > 90 rem recursion > 100 print "beautiful colours" > 110 gosub 100
I think he means that you had no recursive function calls in BASIC. I suppose, to most of us, "recursion" doesn't mean "doing things more than once," since by that definition, iteration is also recursion. Recursion generally means some type of self reference, like in functional languages, where the simplest recursion is base case/recurring step. BASIC didn't do this, without a bit of unsightly hackery. Then again, I don't believe that it was really a concern at the time, so I don't suppose its too important of an issue :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
