Tracy R Reed wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: >> So for the past year or two I have been reading up on functional >> programming. I still haven't written anything useful with it but I >> hope that will change soon. Here is an exchange I had with Chris >> Seberino on IRC last night which I thought some of you might enjoy. > > Summary: Anywhere you would iterate you can also recurse. They are > computationally equivalent. And once you get your head around it > recursion is just as intuitive. But it usually results in less code and > fewer opportunities for bugs among other nice properties.
I wonder: Do functional programming languages have tricks to avoid the performance penalty of function calls (that I believe to be) typical of procedural languages? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
