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Re:It Is What It Is (And Nothing Else) – Why Recursion Still... by whatever12981 on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:55AM (#11149951)
Anecdote: After 12 hours of programming, I still had to implement some easy string search. I could not think straight at that stage and several imperative solutions failed. Then I thought "dammit, let's use a functional approach with recursion". It was faster to write, tail recursive, and correct the first time.
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Re:It Is What It Is (And Nothing Else) – Why Recursion Still... by eterm on Monday February 22, 2016 @06:20AM (#11150045)
Which environment are you working in that doesn't have a string search as part of the standard library?
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Re:It Is What It Is (And Nothing Else) – Why Recursion Still... by whatever72163 on Monday February 22, 2016 @06:30AM (#11150088)
INTERCAL. Seriously, what does it have to do with the point I made?
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