Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT: Examples for teaching recursion in programming Date: 16 Oct 2025 23:00:18 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 24 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: 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> <20251013114536.00000ae5@gmail.com> <10cmkub$39hde$3@dont-email.me> <20251015083926.0000473b@gmail.com> <10cpdjj$1ru9$3@dont-email.me> <10cqcvd$8qkp$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de tK4N9aH9F4nhXV8C/2WF+Q2tw470oE0AqWF9ZUvI9SUam8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:KfLywhEuOkNf/K+l5fXIgoyvMok= sha256:xd0TFitIo9R1Elz4W1+uv4Fnm0GbVYEZOFbJFY6SYMY= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76270 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted: >Subject: Re: OT: Examples for teaching recursion in programming When the disciple had learned about function calls, he bowed deeply and left the hall. Many days later, he returned and said, "Master, I wish to learn recursion." The master looked up from sweeping the floor. "Recursion?" he asked. "Yes, Master. Please teach me." The master placed the broom against the wall and said nothing. The disciple waited. After a time, he grew uneasy and bowed again. "Master, will you not teach me?" The master turned and smiled. "If a call returns," he said, "was it ever gone?"