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sterling wrote:
>I hard pressed to comprend what is meant by a bad programmer?
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there being no definition of a programmer, a bad programmer can be
anything you decide it to be.
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>On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
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>>Tatu Saloranta said:
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>>>There's nothing new there I guess; new CS students are
>>>taught recursion in all the wrong places, and
>>>generally learn quickly enough not to calculate
>>>multiplication by recursive addition by one.
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>>>
>>On that subject, for text programming, the use of recursion is almost
>>always the sign of an inexperienced or poor programmer. The worst offender
>>in this is the Java REGEX package, which is almost useless for large
>>document text processing, because of stack growth in some pathological
>>cases with some harmless-looking regular expressions.
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>>Tree-walking and small-stack problems are a different kettle of fish, of
>>course. Or when using languages with the tail-recursion optimization, of
>>course.
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>>Cheers
>>Rick
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