On 5 Jul 2005, at 23:08, Rene Brehmer wrote:
Mostly it impressed me that recursion wasn't "cool" -- just another
"tool"
and one that you only should pull out 1% of the time.
When we learned about recursion it took our teacher 15 minutes to come
up
with an example for what the heck it was good for ... and it wasn't
even a
good one (can't remember what it was).
I have a Sudoku solver that requires every single permutation of sets
of numbers for testing against, which I find a recursive function
generates extremely quickly. The main uses I find are, as stated
before, for building trees of data or doing very abstract problem
solving.
Gaby
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