Re:Applying NASA coding standards to JavaScript
by jacquesm on Thursday January 08, 2015 @01:31PM
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> recursion belongs in academics.
All those crash prone (not!) Ericsson phone switches beg to differ.
Recursion does not belong just in Academics. But just like any other tool it requires some level of understanding and when you use it naively it will bite you. To avoid such complications NASA attempts to get rid of the problem entirely. But when properly used recursion has its place, provided both the language and the programmer are aware of its limitations and pitfalls.
All those crash prone (not!) Ericsson phone switches beg to differ.
Recursion does not belong just in Academics. But just like any other tool it requires some level of understanding and when you use it naively it will bite you. To avoid such complications NASA attempts to get rid of the problem entirely. But when properly used recursion has its place, provided both the language and the programmer are aware of its limitations and pitfalls.