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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Recursive data types
Summary: The half forgotten Hoare paper...
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Date: 10 May 89 10:08:45 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <11188@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mlind@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Mark William Lind I) writes:

    Personally, I don't see what the use of a recursive
    data structure is.  Dynamic memory allocation is of obvious
    worth (no pun intended), but I don't see what the hell you would
    do with a recursive boolean expression?....... huh?
    
    Please Explain if you are still there.

Maybe the best explanation would come from Hoare, in his very much forgotten
contribution to "Structured Programming", published by Academic Press. Read
also the third and last contribution...
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