Answer: What is recursion and when should I use it?

answer re: What is recursion and when should I use it?

Aug 6 '08

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There are a number of good explanations of recursion in this thread, this answer is about why you shouldn't use it in most languages.* In the majority of major imperative language implementations (i.e. every major implementation of C, C++, Basic, Python, Ruby,Java, and C#) iteration is vastly preferable to recursion.

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