I'm actually a bit scared of using recursion in production (at a web company). It has its place of course, but gratuitous recursive code that could have been w

I'm actually a bit scared of using recursion in production (at a web company). It has its place of course, but gratuitous recursive code that could have been written without gives me pause. It's too easy to miss an edge case and end up with a stack overflow, and that can bring down a whole server farm.