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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:00:23 +1000
Subject: Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> ... For everyone else, I'll use an
> ordinary adult vocabulary, and that includes the word "recursion" or
> "recursive".

Overheard yesterday: "Our conversation was recursing..." I don't know
what they were talking about, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the
technical details of a function's implementation, given that one of
the people concerned was anything but a computer programmer (I don't
know about the other). It's a perfectly good word, useful in many
contexts.

Chris Angelico