Comments on: Recursion isn’t so bad! http://www.jaltiere.com/index.php/2006/07/25/recursion-isnt-so-bad/ .NET Software Development Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:58:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jack Altiere http://www.jaltiere.com/index.php/2006/07/25/recursion-isnt-so-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jack Altiere Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:45:19 +0000 http://www.jaltiere.com/?p=4#comment-13 Can you send me a screenshot of that? I actually use Firefox and it doesn't show up that way for me. The text is on a white background for me. Can you tell me what version you use also? My email is jack@jaltiere.com Can you send me a screenshot of that? I actually use Firefox and it doesn’t show up that way for me. The text is on a white background for me. Can you tell me what version you use also? My email is jack@jaltiere.com

]]> By: Kirit http://www.jaltiere.com/index.php/2006/07/25/recursion-isnt-so-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Kirit Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:53:08 +0000 http://www.jaltiere.com/?p=4#comment-12 Quite. BTW, have you tried your site in Firefox? Comes up black text on dark gray. Not the most readable. Quite.

BTW, have you tried your site in Firefox? Comes up black text on dark gray. Not the most readable.

]]> By: Jack Altiere http://www.jaltiere.com/index.php/2006/07/25/recursion-isnt-so-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Jack Altiere Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:55:39 +0000 http://www.jaltiere.com/?p=4#comment-11 I definitely agree with you about being very careful with the stack when you implement an algorithm recursively, but I also think it's important for developers to have a handle on what recursion is and how it can be useful. I definitely agree with you about being very careful with the stack when you implement an algorithm recursively, but I also think it’s important for developers to have a handle on what recursion is and how it can be useful.

]]> By: Kirit http://www.jaltiere.com/index.php/2006/07/25/recursion-isnt-so-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Kirit Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:53:13 +0000 http://www.jaltiere.com/?p=4#comment-10 I've written a much more detailed analysis of recurion linking to your page. http://www.kirit.com/Recursive%20rights%20and%20wrongs Recursion is good, but you have to be very carful with it. You're much more at risk of running out of stack and certainly don't want to be giving up control of your stack to end users by letting them input data that controls a call to a recursive function. I’ve written a much more detailed analysis of recurion linking to your page.

http://www.kirit.com/Recursive%20rights%20and%20wrongs

Recursion is good, but you have to be very carful with it. You’re much more at risk of running out of stack and certainly don’t want to be giving up control of your stack to end users by letting them input data that controls a call to a recursive function.

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