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Re: How to cast an imperative loop into a readable recursive function ?


From: Paul Rubin
Subject: Re: How to cast an imperative loop into a readable recursive function ?
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:18:31 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Katalin Sinkov <lispstylist@gmail.com> writes:
> I am thinking of how McCarthy wrote all those difficult concepts
> nicely as recursive functions. He dissected a problem ingeniously to
> not have to iterate.

If you like mathematical treatments, you might look for some of Richard
Bird's papers on program refinement.


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