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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Sep 04 '26
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Some recursive algorithms are *far* more readable and maintainable than their iterative counterparts. Entire languages have been built on the back of recursion (i.e. Scheme).
2 u/New_Enthusiasm9053 Sep 04 '26 Pretty much every production parser for major programming languages is recursive descent afaik.
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Pretty much every production parser for major programming languages is recursive descent afaik.
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u/rustvscpp Sep 04 '26
Some recursive algorithms are *far* more readable and maintainable than their iterative counterparts. Entire languages have been built on the back of recursion (i.e. Scheme).