Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Warning - Serious 'sudo' Flaw Compromises Security Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:45:36 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <20251013114536.00000ae5@gmail.com> References: <10cdluk$pc59$2@dont-email.me> <1NucnW53DZrMOHH1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10cihiq$23kb8$6@dont-email.me> <10cios3$25sim$2@dont-email.me> <10cj667$29n96$5@dont-email.me> <10cjf5m$2cnh5$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="91516e02a680405b128e259419691e45"; logging-data="2540021"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186pmHTo79PfUfNG9ryvnx69eR6wR/JQNg=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:+i1E7xqZTdapNtUakZzQ+J8aRRY= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76075 On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:07:50 +0100 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > The other way to spot CS weenies is their gratuitous use of > > recursion. > > Possibly. It can be elegant. Or not. > I used it in a maze building program very successfully. It definitely has its uses, but CS courses almost never seem to focus on the *useful* applications because it's much easier to demonstrate the concept with trivial examples like Fibonacci calculation, which is dead easy to write but *atrocious* in terms of performance scaling :/