Re: Iteration over recursion?

y, obfuscatory and often dogmatic > substitute for iteration! Well put. > There are algorithms that become almost incomprehensible without recursion, > and I > have implemented a recursion layer in both assembler AND Fortran just to > enable me > to write them without going bonke

Re: Iteration over recursion?

very few. > Too bad for you if it does some nasty things to your mind. It's not recursion per se that does the nasty things. It's the way it's been promoted over the years when the simplier iterative solution is a better choice. Sudden Disruption -- Sudden View.

Re: Iteration over recursion?

creating a new context. It allowed the programmer to isolate himself from the reality that he was actually iterating. Talk about mind fuck. It seems things were just to simple the way they were. Like all fashion, this too shall pass. Sudden Disruption -- Sudden View... the radical optio

Re: how do you move to a new line in your text editor?

ces. It seems more useful that way. But then Sudden View doesn't have "cursor bondage" to worry about. Sudden Disruption Try Sudden View - for the art of editing text Beta test now in progress at... http://www.sudden.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list