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Someone in NASA once told me that it was easier to teach a mechanical engineer to program then a software developer mechanical engineering. From that perspecti
by readthenotes1 2y ago
Someone in NASA once told me that it was easier to teach a mechanical engineer to program then a software developer mechanical engineering.
From that perspective, the avoidance of recursion is more compelling. Plus, Fortran didn't support it...
- paulluuk 2y agoI'm curious, how does that perspective make the avoidance of recursion more compelling?
- airbreather 2y agoRecursion can be good, predicting you will never run out of stack or not, can be hard. It's a little hard to duck out to Mars to reboot the lander after you bricked it with a recursive function that never exited.
- readthenotes1 2y agoRecursion was a filter topic when I went through computer science training. Some people couldn't get it.
- grandempire 2y agoThis is a common attitude in other engineering fields, but they also don't tend to have outstanding software and don't care to.