alt Hacker NewsYou’ve never read a 5000 line recursive method that returns different numbers of arguments depending on where it chose to execute the recursive call.
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tikhonj • yesterday at 10:27 PM
If all you do is replace the recursion in that example with one (or more) loops with mutable indexes, chances are the code will get worse.
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Bad code is hard to read, that is orthogonal to the fact that it is recursive.