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Am I along in never being "taught" recursion? I mean, throughout my curriculum, I've used recursion many times and dealt with everything from fibonacci to quicksort, but never once have I sat through even part of a lecture on "Recursion". Among my peers, I don't think anyone really has an issue with recursion or how it works. Harder to debug possibly, but everyone "gets" it, I feel.


Shouldn't it be easier to debug, because you have stack traces?




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