Comment by sras-me 5 hours ago >Recursion is easier to writeAnd read.. 4 comments sras-me Reply LPisGood 4 hours ago You’ve never read a 5000 line recursive method that returns different numbers of arguments depending on where it chose to execute the recursive call. palata 4 hours ago Bad code is hard to read, that is orthogonal to the fact that it is recursive. tikhonj 4 hours ago If all you do is replace the recursion in that example with one (or more) loops with mutable indexes, chances are the code will get worse. LPisGood 3 hours ago Oh don’t worry it had more than a half dozen of those nested as well
LPisGood 4 hours ago You’ve never read a 5000 line recursive method that returns different numbers of arguments depending on where it chose to execute the recursive call. palata 4 hours ago Bad code is hard to read, that is orthogonal to the fact that it is recursive. tikhonj 4 hours ago If all you do is replace the recursion in that example with one (or more) loops with mutable indexes, chances are the code will get worse. LPisGood 3 hours ago Oh don’t worry it had more than a half dozen of those nested as well
tikhonj 4 hours ago If all you do is replace the recursion in that example with one (or more) loops with mutable indexes, chances are the code will get worse. LPisGood 3 hours ago Oh don’t worry it had more than a half dozen of those nested as well
You’ve never read a 5000 line recursive method that returns different numbers of arguments depending on where it chose to execute the recursive call.
Bad code is hard to read, that is orthogonal to the fact that it is recursive.
If all you do is replace the recursion in that example with one (or more) loops with mutable indexes, chances are the code will get worse.
Oh don’t worry it had more than a half dozen of those nested as well