On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:47:13PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > I know for myself, it didn't really start to sink in until I started > writing a bunch of code. It was a painful process, but eventually it > became kind of second nature.
Yea I think you must be right. Getting a nice editor that does the indenting and parens matching is a life saver too. That may even be as crucial as nailing tail recursion to be comfortable with Scheme. > I do now feel learning recursion to this depth was one of the more useful > things I learned about programming. Even when programming iteratively, it > helps me to reason about the problem. Iteration is the clear winner for walking linear arrays. Now I see that recursion is the best game in town for walking nested structures. It clearly is vital for many problem domains and not just a curiosity as I used to think. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
