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Article #1749Re: Recursion in occam
From: Eugene N. Miya
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:32
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:32
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In article <By1FGL.CKF@wizzy.com> andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati) writes:
>If recursion can be guaranteed not to exceed a fixed memory resource,
>there seems to be no reason why it could not be added to the language.
I thought these arguments were left behind in the 60s.
Same argument was used for the design of NASA's HAL/S language.
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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