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Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops? by dheera on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:23AM (#20439228)
Scheme has a "do" loop that doesn't require recursion. It's just that the people who generally teach Scheme are hell-bent on recursion rather than irritation.
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Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops? by reificator on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:46AM (#20441281)
> It's just that the people who generally teach Scheme are hell-bent on recursion rather than irritation.

Freudian slit?

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Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops? by chowells on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:59AM (#20442037)
Have you ever looked at how that's implemented? Seems kind of like saying that since it has the y combinator, you never need to use recursion.
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