Subject: Re: Please help!!
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/02/07
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3127377100181608@naggum.no>

* joswig@lavielle.com (Rainer Joswig)
| It is a recursive problem.

* Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
| that's kind of intriguing.  what distinguishes a recursive _problem_?

* joswig@lavielle.com (Rainer Joswig)
| In this case we have a data structure (a Lisp list) that is easily defined
| recursive. Recursive algorithms are very natural solutions
| for problems like traversal, creation, filtering, etc.

  pardon me for insisting, but definitions, algorithms, implementations,
  and _solutions_ are easily described as recursive.  my question relates
  to calling things recursive _problems_.  if it is "a problem for which a
  recursive solution is deemed most aesthetic", it is just meaningless, but
  if it actually means something specific, I'd like to know.  I find the
  term puzzling, apart from the more or less meaningless interpretation
  that doesn't refer to the problem at all.

#:Erik
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