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Article #271Re: um, maybe this is a silly question
From: Erich Neuwirth
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:49
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:49
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>/0st problem solving that people routinely do shouldn't require the >level of engineering required to convert recursion into interation. >You only need to do it if you're in a situation where you're worried >about reliability in the face of an uncontrolled range of potential >inputs. People writing computational expressions for spreadsheets, for >example, should do fine just with recursion and good stuff like MAP. I >lways wanted to see a good spreadsheet or DBMS with a MAP function. EXCEL has array formulas, and that essetially means formulas can be used in a MAP way.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.logo Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!vm.univie.ac.at!A4422DAB From: A4422DAB@vm.univie.ac.at (Erich Neuwirth) Subject: Re: um, maybe this is a silly question Message-ID: <1992Oct15.195204.9271@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> Sender: news@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at (News System - Vienna University) Nntp-Posting-Host: helios.edvz.univie.ac.at Organization: University of Vienna Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:49:32 GMT Lines: 12