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In article <4jq2en$g2q@news.cais.com> dlabell@paltech.com "David Labell" writes:

>Here's a guy who would rather recurse than loop. I don't mean to be rude, but 
>this is typical of C programmers.

Using recursion in preference to a loop is rather atypical of C
programmers. However there is nothing wrong in discussing alternatives in
a thread such as this, especially when related to languages with a more
functional bias.

>Why not write it so it says what it does? 

For real code that is generally thr correct approach.

>Who benefits from your tricks? 

Anybody who is interested in a broader understanding of programming issues.

>I write this from the standpoint of someone who has spent a career poking 
>through stuff like the above -- writing it weird just so you can say you 
>didn't do ____. 
>
>I'm really tired of it. 

Nobody was advocating the use of it (at least not in C).

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