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[–] richard_merren@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] irdc@derp.foo 2 points 1 year ago

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