they are worst thing about programming
> i like recursive functions
Ryder King
Lincoln Lopez
t. 1st year CS student
Juan Johnson
lol. learn how to code first in whatever language you're starting out with (most likely Python).
Xavier Hall
>the worst thing about programming
You don't believe that come on.
Jaxon Stewart
I try to avoid primitive recursion, but I pretty much use recursion exclusively via foldl and friends
Joseph Nelson
As I have always said, recursion is black magic and should be banned.
Gabriel Gonzalez
I believe it. Back in school I knew people who had been programming for 2-4 months who really did have this opinion.
Juan Carter
i think an iterative function definition is preferable to a recursive definition for a function most of the time... but theres nothing inherently bad about recursion... why do you hate it so much
Lucas Clark
It would be impossible for an NPC taking a shower to imagine themselves as an NPC taking a shower because that would imply they are in some way selfaware, and therefore not an NPC
Owen Bell
In a small embedded system, it can easily cause stack overflow.