On May 20, 1:48 pm, Hans Georg Schaathun <h...@schaathun.net> wrote: > On 20 May 2011 06:55:35 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > : On Thu, 19 May 2011 22:13:14 -0700, rusi wrote: > : > : > [I agree with you Xah that recursion is a technical word that should not > : > be foisted onto lay users.] > : > : I think that is a patronizing remark that under-estimates the > : intelligence of lay people and over-estimates the difficulty of > : understanding recursion. > > Could we then say that «recursion is a technical word that should > not /unnecessarily/ be foisted onto lay users»?
Yes. Steven is talking about the fact that the intelligent lay user may be intelligent. I was referring to the fact that the intelligent lay user is a lay user. [Not my main point except to say that dragging in alt.usage.english into a discussion of recursion seemed a tad unnecessary and unfair] So the ILU may understand recursion He may not know "recursion" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list