On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, CyberPeasant wrote:
->As an amateur anthropologist, I would be interested in knowing the true
->origins of the adversion to recursion. I think there are psychological
->reasons -- uneasiness about the stack.
mine are because we were taught recursion with linked lists, we wrote little
accessor and transformer functions ( conslist, head, tail etc) and used
ONLY those to modify the list - Fine, no problem. Problem is that you can
get _really_ _really_ confused if you think too hard about what the code is
actually doing (our teacher drew a diagram of a list being built, added to
and elements removed, it was a mess, lines showing links everywhere. Even
HE got confused :) (remember i was being taught this in Modula-2)
the stack is good, used it in Assembly.
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