Some Java/C# design flaws

retard re at tard.com.invalid
Tue Feb 2 11:36:47 PST 2010


Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:16:38 +1030, Justin Johansson wrote:

> Funny about this; virtually every CS101 course covers recursive binary
> tree node visitation but rarely is there a mention of the iterative
> solution.  The iterative solution is much more tricky but for larger N,
> is almost a must for practical situations.

Well they only taught us the iterative solution and mentioned that the 
recursive version is kind of nice to know for theoretical reasons, but 
you never should use recursion in practice because it's so slow. I guess 
this is great because it makes learning functional programming much 
harder.



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