English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

[Rikishi42]

On 2011-05-20, Hans Georg Schaathun <hg at schaathun.net> wrote:

>:  It starts with the misconception (or should I say confusion?) between
>:  performing a recursive job and using a recursive tool to do it. And then it
>:  blazes off in these huge discusions about semantics to define a definition
>:  of an abstraction of a alleady theoretical problem.
>
> And explaining the source of the misconception and the varying use
> would be irrelevant?

It usually is, yes. And boring.



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