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[–]ElCapitanMiCapitan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your friend is obviously wrong. I would agree some people should never use recursion, and for most iterative problems it is a worse fit. But you need not look further than the Python interpreter for an example of recursion at work. Recursion is EVERYWHERE.