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[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

@irdc @feoh All programmers need to learn recursion and fully understand it so when they encounter it in the wild they can properly analyze what it is doing and replace it with non-recursive code.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A non-recursive recursive descent parser isn’t any easier to reason about.

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