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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 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> >
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