In article <4c6e9de9$0$23142$426a7...@news.free.fr>, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote: >Steven D'Aprano a écrit : >> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:00:16 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote: >>> >>> Recursion can be quite a trick to get your mind round at first >> >> Really? Do people actually find the *concept* of recursion to be tricky? > >I onced worked in a shop (Win32 desktop / accouting applications mainly) >where I was the only guy that could actually understand recursion. FWIW, >I also was the only guy around that understood "hairy" (lol) concepts >like callback functions, FSM, polymorphism, hashtables, linked lists, >ADTs, algorithm complexity etc...
To some extent, the question here is the definition of "understand" being used. It probably would be reasonable to say that I have only a cookbook level understanding of recursion, and the same would apply to callback functions, FSM, linked lists, and so on. (I mostly think I do really understand polymorphism and hashtables.) -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "...if I were on life-support, I'd rather have it run by a Gameboy than a Windows box." --Cliff Wells
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