Re: um, maybe this is a silly question

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1 total messages Started by Erich Neuwirth Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:49

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Author: Erich Neuwirth
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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