Totally OT, but frustrated.....

[Bjørn]

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.

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-bv