The SNOBOL 4 programming language
The SNOBOL 4 programming language
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The value of a recursive programming capability in a high level programming language is now generally recognized. The teaching of recursive programming, however, is often postponed to a second-semester college course in computing science, as if the topic belonged to an advanced level, though it has been shown (1, 2) that recursion can be grasped by students of mathematics at the secondary school level or earlier. One unfortunate result of this postponement of recursion in computing science teaching is that students who take one semester only carry away with them the false notion that computers are limited intrinsically to understanding iterative processes.