Re: PROLOG in the "real" world?

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From: Dan Benanav
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1991 02:11

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clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:

>    While I personally like the idea of recursion and use it whenever I program
>in LISP, I am curious to other reasons of using recursion besides elegance.

It's not just a matter of elegance.  I find it much easier to write
resursive programs.   I can write a recursive version of an
algorithm  much faster then the iterative version.

                            Dan

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