alt Hacker News> It seems to be common knowledge that any recursive function can be transformed into an iterative function.
Huh. Where i work, the main problem is that everyone is hell-bent on transforming every iterative function into a recursive function. If i had a pound for every recursive function called "loop" in the codebase, i could retire.
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adafactor • today at 5:12 PM
Where on earth do you work? This is unusual...
My experience has gone the other way: lots of code with recursion, rewritten to be iterative. There really aren't that many use-cases in vanilla enterprise code that benefit from recursion when the entire cost is considered.