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Re:The Best Programming Language (or How to Stop Worrying an... by adamnemecek on Monday March 03, 2014 @03:14PM (#7336142)
I don't think that recursion is really idiomatic in C++.
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Re:The Best Programming Language (or How to Stop Worrying an... by NAFV_P on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @04:44PM (#7343413)
> I don't think that recursion is really idiomatic in C++.

Ok, I think you could throw that at C as well. As a general programming concept it's quite idiomatic. All I know is that fucking up recursion is just as easy as fucking up iteration.

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Re:The Best Programming Language (or How to Stop Worrying an... by adamnemecek on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @08:56PM (#7344731)
Well it's not really idiomatic in C either. And it's not about fucking it up but about performance. Even if you do tail recursion, it will still be slower.
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