Linked by Takuya Murata on Tue 18th May 2004 06:26 UTC
My physics teacher likes to say that physics like to make problems they face look like ones that they know how to solve. A simple harmonic oscillation was one he frequently used in class, as is presumably the case in physics in general.
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"And just for the record, a recursive function is really, really bad, "
Hehe try writing an iterative raytracer :-) There are some algorithms that run far better recursively than iteratively.
"...especially on an unbounded list (unbounded = who the heck knows how big it is at runtime). That's a good way to whack your stack and core dump/crash."
Probably more of an indication that the problem would be solved better using another approach.