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That Nim Flashbacks (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

I've always hated recursion. It's always seemed like a cutesy programming trick that's not reliable in all conditions.

You could blow the stack in an edge case that you didn't think of. So it should never be a standard pattern. It's only good if you need to rewrite something for optimization and recursion is appropriate. But in many cases recursion is slower.

"Look at what I can do in 5 lines of code!" is for programming contests, not for anything important.