What if you couldn’t program with loops?

Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops? by BalinKing on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:48AM (#20438463)

This seems a bit worrying to me as a general principle, since Javascript's lack of tail call optimization (TCO) means that you can blow the stack pretty easily by manually recursing. Just my two cents :-)

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Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops? by BalinKing on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:49AM (#20438466)

(Out of curiosity, have you considered starting at raw recursion – like in your example – but then moving on to using utility functions like `map` from e.g. Ramda or lodash?)

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Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops? by yjhoney on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:11AM (#20438544)

Yes. curriculum starts off with recursion, then moves on to higher order functions and nobody touches recursion again.

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Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops? by yjhoney on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:10AM (#20438540)

eventually everyone defaults to using forEach, every, map, reduce, filter, etc. Nobody writes recursion in codebases.

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