On Apr 18, 4:40 am, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:55 PM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Circular just means recursive and recursion is the bedrock for > > language-design. > > Rercursion the "bedrock" of language-design. I don't think so.
Imperative programmers may be forgiven for not understanding how pervasive the idea of recursion is in CS. For example most C programmers dont understand that the standard definition of linked list is not just recursive, its mutually recursive: pointer <points to> struct struct <contains> pointer I have a collection of some of the variety of the uses of recursion in CS here: http://blog.languager.org/2012/05/recursion-pervasive-in-cs.html Or see the first line of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_theory recursion theory is by definition the same subject as computation theory -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
