Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
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?
Lol. Now this would at least be a pretty good description of the kind of
code base these guys were used to !-)
polymorphism, hashtables, linked lists,
ADTs, algorithm complexity etc...
Was there anything they *did* understand,
Hmmm.... good question - but I didn't last long enough to find out.
or did they just bang on the
keyboard at random until the code compiled? *wink*
Kind of, yes.
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