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Re:Data structures and algorithms I actually used while work... by ajuc on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:36AM (#23843778)
> What are the practical applications of recursion though ?

Traversing and transforming nested data structures.

Just last month I had to write code that maps flat data from one system into a nested structure required by another system.

We wrote mappings as map literals and the code traverses them creating a new instance of the map filling the leaves with data from the input row and running some business logic on it.

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