Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Lecture 21 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)" video.

  1. Yes, it is, and you should avoid it like hell. Why? Because depending on the implementation you may run into machine limitations that you would never suspect to exist. Moreover, it's extremely hard to debug a recursive function that is 124,000 calls deep. Why would you do that to yourself? A billion iterations of a loop is still the same loop operating on the same one copy of the data, but 124,000 recursive function calls are operating on 124,000 copies of the data. You really want to check all of them? Really? ;-)
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