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Re: Recursion?
things that seemed important back in the '70s are no longer an issue for SW. Back in the 70's mainframe computers only had 32 to 64 k (not megs, thousands) bytes of memory
you would be hard pressed to find appications today where memory utilization or processor speeds are really an issue
and in those cases, you dont code in C, you write assembly code for the critical functions.
the greatest expense in SW is debugging and code updates and maintance. Clarity and readability is EVERYTHING.
If you have ever been required to debug someone elses code, or modify it, you will know what Im talking about - goto statements turn your code into spagetti.
I wasnt kidding when I said the SW courses I took in college (6 semisters), you got an automatic F if you used them - there was no recourse or arguing with the professor either - THATS how serious of an issue these shortcuts are.
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