[erlang-questions] Erlang for youngsters

[Steve Davis]

It's not hard... but can be extremely expensive if it builds a call stack 
(e.g. Java)...

On Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:32:59 PM UTC-5, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>
> > Evgeny M writes: 
> >> Recursion is hard in any language without pattern matching. 
>
> I don't believe that.  Decades ago I was using languages like Algol, 
> Lisp, Pop-2, in all of which pattern matching was entirely absent 
> yet recursion was easy. 
>
> I'm reminded of Susan's classroom.  I think it's in "The Thief of Time." 
> The quote goes something like this: 
>  she hadn't told the children algebra was hard, 
>  so they never found out. 
>
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