Comments on Retro Programming: Recursion via Pascal

Pascal is definitely one of my favorite languages....

2011-07-18T01:56:15.512-07:00

Pascal is definitely one of my favorite languages. Sadly, its often overlooked...

My thoughts exactly! It has soooo many pros over the C-based languages -and yet because of Unix, people completely shoved it to a dark corner. My aim is to try to promote the language.

Here is a factorial function that illustrates a &q...

2011-02-16T14:54:59.932-08:00

Here is a factorial function that illustrates a "pure" recursive form:

long factorial(long n)
{ return(n>0?(n*factorial(n-1)):1); }

Pascal is definitely one of my favorite languages. Sadly, its often overlooked...

The x^n code is in O(n) because p(x, n div 2) is c...

2011-01-13T02:30:54.408-08:00

The x^n code is in O(n) because p(x, n div 2) is called twice instead of being memoized. Right? :D

Anonymous: thanks, fixed it :-)

2011-01-12T16:39:15.902-08:00

Anonymous: thanks, fixed it :-)

C uses == for equality

2011-01-12T16:28:02.561-08:00

C uses == for equality