But you don't understand recursion until you've been throwing bananas at bushes and convinced people it makes sense.
Really, Wren? Do you really believe that one needs to understand those papers to understand recursion? I don't understand those papers, but I didn't have any trouble with Joel's challenge.
Honestly, I think that if we want more people to use and understand recursion, it might help if we stopped propagating the myth that you have to be a rocket surgeon to understand it.
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Date: 2009-01-06 09:40 pm (UTC)From:Really, Wren? Do you really believe that one needs to understand those papers to understand recursion? I don't understand those papers, but I didn't have any trouble with Joel's challenge.
Honestly, I think that if we want more people to use and understand recursion, it might help if we stopped propagating the myth that you have to be a rocket surgeon to understand it.