26 Mar
2005
26 Mar
'05
4:49 a.m.
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:03:54 +0100, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
...
They're LISP (actually "SCHEME") fanatics.
They demo'd an example that "can not possibly be solved in ANY way
but recursion". While they were keying it in in Scheme, I wrote
out a non-recursive solution (with a 2D array) in C, BASIC, FORTRAN,
and I got halfway through writing the COBOL form.
I once programmed quicksort in RPG-II (because we did not have an
assembler for the System 3, IBM wanted lots of money for it.
--
-bv