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		mahyarm on Aug 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dijkstra was right – recursion should not be diffi... Not to mention the debugger. Recursive loops create huge traces that are difficult to follow vs an equivalent for loop.

icebraining on Aug 7, 2017 [–]

That's a feature, not a bug, in my opinion. Recursion preserves information about the function's execution. The problem is debuggers being too dumb to detect it and present it well.

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