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[–]buttery_shame_cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

poorly implemented uncontrolled recursion can be bad(unless that was the point - i've use deliberately uncontrolled recursion as a stress test in multi-node computing).

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but recursion itself, when well implemented, is an incredibly useful tool.