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recursion: it looks cool at first but becomes nothing more than a pain when you understand it's just a named loop that's also messing with your stack

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@CobaltVelvet everything is just a huge loop covering all of your process' virtual memory

@CobaltVelvet if only it even was that simple in the general case. mutual or multiple recursion makes that even messier