Software bugs aren't inevitable

[Paul Rubin]

François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> This being said, for one, I always found _insane_ presenting recursion
> to new programmers using such examples, which are both very easily,
> and much better written non-recursively.  It does not help beginners
> at taking recursion any seriously.

I dunno whether functional programming is a suitable topic for
beginners, but I do know that there are some kinds of programs that
beginners shouldn't be writing.  I'm more interested in how well these
techniques work for experts, than in how well they work for beginners.