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lupire on July 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reconsidering the way I explain programming (2020)

That's a stack, not recursion. Recursion is self-reference.

ummwhat on July 29, 2021 [–]

The same brain function is processing every layer of the stack. Its the call stack of a recursive function.

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