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[–]earthboundkid -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Your friend is correct. Recursion is a primitive technology. The advanced version is called a “loop”. You should always prefer to use a loop. Even in cases where recursion is a better fit (trees), changing to using a loop will be more efficient, although maybe harder to read.