Can you elaborate on this at all?

I won’t use recursion if not needed to make the same task that a simple for could handle; recursions are really dangerous in places where you can’t directly access your machine, like if you are on Mars or on the moon or at the bottom of the ocean!

The Power of 10 — NASA’s Rules for Coding

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Riccardo Giorato

Brian Mearns

1 min readOct 20, 2019

Can you elaborate on this at all? What makes recursion dangerous, and why would access to the machine change how dangerous it is?

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