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The best joke about recursion

Michiel Hendriks on July 07, 2019

... can be found here: The best joke about recursion Michiel Hendriks ・ Jul 7 '19 #jok...
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Ken Bellows •

Classic. Reminds me of what happens when you google "recursion":

Google search results for "recursion", showing the suggestion "Did you mean recursion?"

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Shawn McElroy •

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

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tonnoz • • Edited

I prefer this one about deadlock (kind of similar) :
deadlock

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾 •

Oh my stack 🤣🤣🤣

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Amanda Hewitt •

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who understand recursion and those who don't understand that there are two kinds of people in this world...

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Michel Renaud •

I've posted this here a few times, but here we go again: From the index of the dBASE III Plus manual back in the '80s (when software came with printed manuals so big you could kill someone with them):

Endless Loop: See Loop, Endless
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Loop, Endless: See Endless Loop

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Stefanos Kouroupis •

Proper recursion ends 😛

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Patrick Tingen • • Edited

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Edwin Mak •

Haha this was hella clever. You getting a unicorn reaction and heart from me

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Peter Kim Frank •

👏🏽

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Alejandro Gorgues •

Where?

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Deepak Singh •

Stack overflow

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Nazmul Hasan Bappy •

No matther where from you start: you can start from first or last, it will remain the same. that's recursion. You can also say its result will be same if you choose either FIFO or LIFO :D

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Yechiel Kalmenson •

Good one! 😂

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Bruce Axtens •

Now that is cute. Really cute. You're not a parent, are you?

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reidterror •

Oh god

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Rachel Soderberg •

This made me laugh, thank you!

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ADONIS SIMO •

good man....

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mommocmoc •

😂