Subj : Re: Are recursive functions ever needed?
To   : comp.programming
From : John
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 08:39 pm

"Tatu Portin" <axel86@mbnet.fi> wrote in message 
news:z%x%e.451$nZ1.352@read3.inet.fi...
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> Well, my problem here seems to be lack of good examples where recursion is 
> needed. Would anybody provide some?
>

XML parser.
Binary tree.
traversing a directory tree
web crawler
....

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