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"Recursive programming"... as in, programming using recursion? Why would this be important to "data science"? Surely loops are just as effective.
by gburt2 13y ago
"Recursive programming"... as in, programming using recursion? Why would this be important to "data science"? Surely loops are just as effective.
- dudurocha 13y agoAre you serious? How would you iterate over a set of rules and a big data volume, without using recursion?
- aet 13y agoA loop? Can you please explain?
- petegrif 13y ago'Explain'?
- wavefunction 13y agoI assume the "explain" refers to the most important thing you can learn about recursive programming: that it is often but not always the least efficient strategy when compared with looping. So the claim that recursive programming is the only or primary method of iterating over large data sets requires some explanation...
- UK-AL 13y agoI haven't read the article but i'm guessing this a reference to divide and conquer methods. Such as map reduce used in hadoop and such.