I think you give wrong idea about recursion. You shouldn't put it in your toolbox as something to use all the time to solve all these great problems. It should generally be avoided. All problems can be solved without it, and most should. It makes ugly hard to find bugs, and code that doesn't ma...
@ Julie Zelenski: It is obvious you are knowledgeable and intelligent, but when you dumb things down for beginners you should explain you are doing that to them. Made up stories about why fstreams take c strings make you look dumb. It is also frustrating to students when one day they are told th...
what the muck?