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Re: [xml-dev] Bad programmers use recursion (Offtopic was Re:[xml-dev] XML Performance in a Transacation)
I hard pressed to comprend what is meant by a bad programmer?
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> Tatu Saloranta said:
>
> > There's nothing new there I guess; new CS students are
> > taught recursion in all the wrong places, and
> > generally learn quickly enough not to calculate
> > multiplication by recursive addition by one.
>
> On that subject, for text programming, the use of recursion is almost
> always the sign of an inexperienced or poor programmer. The worst offender
> in this is the Java REGEX package, which is almost useless for large
> document text processing, because of stack growth in some pathological
> cases with some harmless-looking regular expressions.
>
> Tree-walking and small-stack problems are a different kettle of fish, of
> course. Or when using languages with the tail-recursion optimization, of
> course.
>
> Cheers
> Rick
>
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