Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:00:16 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > Recursion can be quite a trick to get your mind round at first > > Really? Do people actually find the *concept* of recursion to be > tricky?
Evidently so. It's folk wisdom that some adults find recursion an easy concept, and those people will find programming significantly easier; and the majority of people have a great deal of difficulty with recursion and so find programming correspondingly difficult. There is evidence that the phenomenon is at least significant and measurable <URL:http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=53033>. There is all manner of speculation as to what might cause this divide in capability, but precious little scientific research has been done on the differences between such people AFAICT. -- \ “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe | `\ or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” —Arthur C. Clarke, | _o__) 1999 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
