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 ...