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I would really enjoy a class that was nothing but modeling various kinds of computation entirely with recursion. Every time I accomplish something neat and clea

I would really enjoy a class that was nothing but modeling various kinds of computation entirely with recursion. Every time I accomplish something neat and clean with recursion, it feels like I just used a niche superpower.

TuringTest 3y ago
> I would really enjoy a class that was nothing but modeling various kinds of computation entirely with recursion. I had the luck of having a whole semester doing just that with various functional and logic languages (Haskell and Prolog) with a great teacher. You start by learning accumulator parameters and tail recursion, then you build and learn to use foldl and lazy functions; and then you may learn monads as a design pattern to reduce boilerplate for those techniques.