Sorry, you just haven't dealt with any real-world scenarios and real-world people. Yes, recursion is not acceptable. No, this isn't about copy-paste. In the "

Sorry, you just haven't dealt with any real-world scenarios and real-world people. Yes, recursion is not acceptable. No, this isn't about copy-paste. In the "real world" non-coders produce write-only code. (Nobody can read or reproduce somebody else's "formulas", but they will happily write their own, spanning multiple pages.) Troubleshooting and writing complex code is acceptable for non-coders, as long as the programming language is not Turing complete. (The human brain seems to have real trouble processing Turing-complete constructs, it is somethig that needs explicit training. Recursion or loops doesn't matter.)