The lost art (Was: The VAX is running

[John Floren]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:05 PM, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
<bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> Chris Kennedy wrote:
>>
>> John Floren wrote:
>>
>>> I hope the answer is recursion. The answer should ALWAYS be recursion,
>>> right Professor McCarthy? :)
>>
>> Only if you have an arbitrary amount of memory available.  What if
>> you're constrained to a handful of automatics?
>
> What if all you got is a PDP8 with 4K... :)
>
>

Well, you probably wouldn't be programming in C, then ;)

John
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