Recursion is a great art, enabling programs for which it is easy to verify correctness without sacrificing performance, but it requires the programmer to look at programming in a new light.

递归是一门伟大的艺术，使得程序的正确性更容易确认，而不需要牺牲性能，但这需要程序员以一种新的眼光来研究程序设计。

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Note that this is classical functional programming, relying on recursion over iteration.

请注意这是典型的功能性编程，取决于迭代上的递归。

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For those of you who are new to computer programming, here's a simple definition of recursion: recursion occurs when a function calls itself directly or indirectly.

对刚开始接触计算机编程的人而言，这里有递归的一个简单定义：当函数直接或者间接调用自己时，则发生了递归。

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And this too is where the power of recursion comes in in a programming language.

这也是在编程语言中,对递归很有影响的一点。

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