[Oberon] Oberon-07, recursion and type extension

John R. Strohm strohm at airmail.net
Mon Sep 5 22:34:21 CEST 2016


--- informujo at aon.at wrote:

> Actually, a functional-programming expert once said that "recursion is
> the goto of functional programming", since most recursive functions can
> be replaced by higher-level standard functions like "map" and "filter".

Key word: "most".

"most" does not equal "all".

Again, consider Quicksort.


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