English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:06 AM, rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> 4. Recursion in 'recursion theory' aka 'computability theory' is
> somehow different from recursion in programming.

Um, it is.  Consider the simple function (lambda x, y: x + y).
Mathematically, this function is recursive.  Algorithmically, it is
not.  Do you disagree?