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Discussion on: What is Recursion, and Why Shouldn't You Use It?

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Replies for: People don't use recursion because they think it is fast. They usually use it because it fits with the functional programming paradigm which is gro...

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Raymond Price Author •

Well that, and it's often simpler and clearer than the iterative method. Compare the two versions of tree traversal in this article.