Recursive functions that use mutable data; Ideally, you'd use the least expressive constructs that you can. Of course, if your language doesn't support tail call optimization, ...

I have seen recursion code implode on itself on the JVM before. In this case, we caught the annoying stack overflow problem before it went into production and I had to work a good number of hours ...

Here is an example of a recursive Java palindrome program that checks String literals: package com.mcnz.palindrome.example; public class JavaStringPalindromeProgram { /* The main method declares three ...

Recursive SQL can be very elegant and efficient. However, because of the difficulty developers can have understanding recursion, it is sometimes thought of as 'too inefficient to use frequently.' But, ...