The Importance of Recursion in Functional Programming

Bruce Echkeldap: I think a lot of the problem with what people have tried to do with functional programming is the ones who get the underlying theory and it's just so amazing and beautiful to them. And they don't really understand that for the vast majority of people, their entry point needs to be, I'm trying to do something. How does this solve my problem? Why should I? Well, this podcast that I heard the fellow who was talking about how recursion is just kind of a silly thing. It's like, well, you know, what problem are we solving here? The underlying problem is actually kind of subtle and mostly not what people encounter in their day