Recursion: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

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Recursion: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

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First you learn to program. Then you make a recursive function. Then you forget the exit condition. And then... well, you get the idea. Or rather, you get the same idea over and over until your stack overflows and your computer begs for mercy. It's like telling someone "to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion" and watching them slowly spiral into madness.

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