The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps

Re:The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps by nerpderp82 on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @01:14PM (#39920159)

Recursion is like an inductive proof, you can show it is correct and it normally fits on half of a small screen.

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Re:The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps by Joel_Mckay on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @01:42PM (#39920546)

There is an argument that all recursive proofs can be made iterative due to isomorphism.

You are not lazy enough to be a good programmer yet. ;-)

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Re:The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps by nerpderp82 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:45PM (#39933644)

Yeah, but that is error prone and more complex. A compiler can make those same transformations. I'd argue that the properly lazy programmer is the one using recursion. To get even lazier, one should move into relational algebra.

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Re:The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps by Joel_Mckay on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:17PM (#39934633)

Meh, or just choose a documented data structure that supports your problem scope. If it takes longer than 1 coffee, than someone is usually approaching things the wrong way...

Have to think "minimum effort" here... ;-)

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Re:The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps by nerpderp82 on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:07PM (#39947233)

I have seen 150 lines of SQL replaced with 12k lines of Java.

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Re:The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps by Joel_Mckay on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:31PM (#39949219)

Only 12k lines?

That is efficient for most Java programmers. =)

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Re:The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps by nerpderp82 on Monday April 08, 2024 @01:42PM (#39972034)

Thank you! :)

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