Name: Anonymous 2008-04-10 18:05
Written: 2003
About the author: Ron penton: currently finishing bachelors degree in comp sci at state university of new york at buffalo. He hopes to have a long career in game dev.
Years ago, in the bad old days, computer languages didn't support recursion. See the section called "The stack" to find out why..
"Old languages stored local function variables in global memory..... without a stack this function works as if variable was static. Obviously this would cause a lot of problems with recursive algorithms.
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About the author: Ron penton: currently finishing bachelors degree in comp sci at state university of new york at buffalo. He hopes to have a long career in game dev.
Years ago, in the bad old days, computer languages didn't support recursion. See the section called "The stack" to find out why..
"Old languages stored local function variables in global memory..... without a stack this function works as if variable was static. Obviously this would cause a lot of problems with recursive algorithms.
GOGOOGOGOGOG UNIVERSITY EDUCATION