> Any code which walks a tree is almost certainly going to be using
> recursion. This is everything from a chess game analyser, to image
> processing software, to your browser when it's rendering a web page and
> much more in-between.
For the comment about Chess, see minmax for a concrete example:
> Sorry to bother you all with what you might consider trivia, but
someone
> in my course forum posted this statement:
>
> "I have never seen or heard of real uses of recursion except for
proving
> cleverness,"
>
> so I thought I would ask you all if that is true. Is it really not
used
> in real
On 10/09/14 03:56, Deb Wyatt wrote:
"I have never seen or heard of real uses of recursion except for proving
cleverness,"
so I thought I would ask you all if that is true. Is it really not used in
real world applications?
Its often used in prototyping and then converted to non-recursive
s
Hi Deb,
For good training on recursion, I can't think of better material than:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
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Sorry to bother you all with what you might consider trivia, but someone in my
course forum posted this statement:
"I have never seen or heard of real uses of recursion except for proving
cleverness,"
so I thought I would ask you all if that is true. Is it really not used in
real world appli
