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At a job interview on Friday, I had to write code, and one of the things that came up when we were talking about implementation of a concept was recursion. The director of the group said to me "Don't ...

A fact I recently learnedI recently finished reading a book on automata, and according to that book, Turing machines, lambda calculus, and recursive functions all have the same computational ...