Should I convert FORTRAN code to C?

Steven Ryan smryan at garth.UUCP
Thu Jul 7 06:19:45 AEST 1988


>>In Algorithmic Language and Program Development, Bauer and Wossner, they cite
>>Paterson and Hewitt as proving, essentially, recursion is more powerful than
>>iteration.
>>
>I don't know the learned gentlemen, but it is certainly true that for
>anything that can run on a computer, recursion is *at most* as strong
>as iteration.

I will step aside. The bibliography reference is, I think,

     Paterson M S, Hewitt C E (1970): Comparative Schematology. Record of
         the Project MAC Conference on Concurrent Systems and Parallel
         Computation, Woods Hole, Mass, 1970. New York: ACM 1970, p. 119-127

Have at it.



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