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RE: New Lego challenge !
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:43:37 GMT
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Joel Shafer <joel@connect.net=SayNoToSpam=>
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At 12:52 PM 9/13/99 +0000, you wrote:
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> I rememeber a thread a while back arguing about the "elegegance"
> of recurion and that it can almost always be represented by
> other non-recursive algorithms. The argument was about the difference
> between the memory use on the return stack during recursion
> versus the memory used to represent the problem non-recursively....
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> Cheers,
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> Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
The argument quickly turned into one of our definition wars about what
exactly is recursion.
Joel Shafer joel@connect.net
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| <snipped discussion about recursive vs non-recursive> (...) Joel, could you please define definition war more exactly? And maybe give an example of why it's not recursive... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Lego challenge !
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| (...) Yes, unfortunately the current firmware implementation from LEGO doesn't have a call stack, so you can not build recursive routines. :-( On the other hand I can imagine labyrinths where that bot would never be able to do anything out of them. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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