Re:SICP Goodness – Why you don't need looping constructs
by lucio on Friday June 29, 2018 @09:19AM
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In current hardware, recursion is far from a "primitive". jump is a primitive. Looping is above that, and recursion is way above iteration in a "foundational vs. composed" hierarchy. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2651112/is-recursion-eve...
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Re:SICP Goodness – Why you don't need looping constructs
by willtim on Friday June 29, 2018 @09:28AM
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I was advocating recursion as a foundational primitive for a compiled high-level or intermediate language, not as part of some hardware instruction set. Current hardware is a bit of a legacy mess, we should resist the temptation to take on its baggage.