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From: kanamori@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Atsushi Kanamori)
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Subject: Re: Recursion?
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.173551.5130@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Oct 90 17:35:51 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.101354.593@contact.uucp> rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) writes:
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>Does anyone out there know of any other good examples that
>show the reak usefulness of recursion?

Dunno about business environments but as for reek (er, real) uses
of recursion: 

  processing nested #include directives in C files,
  evaluating arithmetic expressions, 
  recursive descent parsing,
  maintaining binary search trees (or any kind of tree),
  implementing quicksort.

That should do it.