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In my technical writing class in college, the professor made the point that "recursion" is based on the verb "to recur", and that "to recurse" means "to curse a
by mtviewdave 12y ago
In my technical writing class in college, the professor made the point that "recursion" is based on the verb "to recur", and that "to recurse" means "to curse again".
- herge 12y ago> "to recurse" means "to curse again" If that doesn't sound like programming, I don't know what does.
- ScottBurson 12y agoYes, though it's a bit of an odd situation: we have two noun/adjective pairs, recursion/recursive and recurrence/recurrent, which don't mean exactly the same thing though they're related (see for example [0]), and which all come from a single verb. It makes some sense to create a second verb by back-formation to reflect the two meanings. [0] http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jiang/cs141/recur-tut.txt http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jiang/cs141/recur-tut.txt