On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:23:23 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Steven D'Aprano a écrit : >> 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? >> >> > I onced worked in a shop (Win32 desktop / accouting applications mainly) > where I was the only guy that could actually understand recursion. FWIW, > I also was the only guy around that understood "hairy" (lol) concepts > like callback functions, FSM,
FSM? Flying Spaghetti Monster? > polymorphism, hashtables, linked lists, > ADTs, algorithm complexity etc... Was there anything they *did* understand, or did they just bang on the keyboard at random until the code compiled? *wink* > Needless to say, I didn't last long !-) And rightly so :) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
