It Is What It Is (And Nothing Else) – Why Recursion Still Matters

Re:It Is What It Is (And Nothing Else) – Why Recursion Still... by AnimalMuppet on Monday February 22, 2016 @04:08PM (#11154305)

That doesn't mean that the reasoning in a human brain is equally difficult, or equally error-prone. If nothing else, doing the transformations (and back) adds to the cognitive burden.

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Re:It Is What It Is (And Nothing Else) – Why Recursion Still... by mafribe on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:38PM (#11154907)

That depends primarily on the programmer's experience, if you are used to loops but not recursion, then obviously the former is simpler than the latter, and vice versa. If you are equally familiar with both, they then thinking about it is equally difficult.

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