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Re:Understanding Recursion: The five-cent tour of Advanced P... by bmcleod on Saturday December 11, 2010 @01:36AM (#1994361)
I was shocked when I took CS papers at the number of people who just could not grasp recursion.

My first job out of Uni I pretty much got the interview because the sample code I sent in had recursion in it.

I occasionally think I should recommend lisp to people who don't get it, but I'm not sure it wouldn't just break them.

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