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Roles that don't involve recursion? What next, no for loops please - we are developers!!
by random314 7y ago
Roles that don't involve recursion? What next, no for loops please - we are developers!!
- scarejunba 7y agoWe hired an engineer once. He wrote a tail recursive function. We had to fire him. We hadn't tested him on that on the whiteboard.
- ericd 7y agoShrug recursion, where it makes sense, is wonderful and fun. I’m always happy when I find a problem where it makes sense, because those tend to be interesting problems. But in a lot of roles, working in languages like Python and Java, it just isn’t the best option very often.
- random314 7y agoYes of course, traversing directories or dependencies is hard. We are developers, not mercenaries!