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On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Scott Hawley wrote:

> What to you think? Loops without using loops?

  You can certainly use recursion instead of looping iteratively, but 
there are space and time concerns associated with recursion.  Of course, 
there's always tail recursion optimization, which is basically just looping 
behind the programmer's back. :-)  There are a number of languages which use 
recursion and/or generate-and-test paradigms to replace iterative loops 
(mostly logical and functional languages like Lisp, Miranda, Prolog, 
Mercury, ML, Haskell, etc.).
  When I'm programming in C, I tend to use for(;;) and while() and their 
ilk a lot because that's the idiom C uses, and I use recursion only when the 
problem is best expressed recursively.

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