Functional Programming - Lots of emphasis on recursion, why?
- by peakit
I am getting introduced to Functional Programming [FP] (using Scala). One thing that is coming out from my initial learnings is that FPs rely heavily on recursion. And also it seems like, in pure FPs the only way to do iterative stuff is by writing recursive functions.
And because of the heavy usage of recursion seems the next thing that FPs had…