It’s COBOL all the way down

Re:It’s COBOL all the way down by blattimwind on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:22AM (#16966390)

Recursive and iterative functions have the same computational power.

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Re:It’s COBOL all the way down by adrianN on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:51AM (#16966570)

And every computable function can be expressed in Brainfuck. That doesn't mean that some algorithms are a lot more elegantly expressed when your language supports recursion.

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