Post #563455
2026-03-07 02:39 UTC
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca
... in Pascal.. And there I finally learned about and was able to get used to using recursion.
Although I'd say I didn't *really* get it until the following semester taking the assembler course and learning about *stacks*.
It was like recursion was sufficiently weird that I didn't really want to trust it until/unless I had a sense of what was actually happening under the hood,
And THEN it was cool.
7/n
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@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net 2026-03-07 02:41
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca To the point where, the following summer as an intern, I was needing to write a tree walk, and I wrote it in FORTRAN -- because that's what was available at AT&T Basking Ridge (long story) -- using fake recursion, because I *could*; I think my supervisor (who was not really a programmer, to be fair) blue-screened on that one. And *then* I tried to explain it all to my dad... 8/n