The first part of the title is actually “How recursion got into programming”; losing the “How” renders the title incomprehensible.
If you’re worried the original title is too clickbaity then drop the part after the colon. But not “how.” The mere fact that recursion got into programming is obvious. The whole point of this article is to explain how.
And almost always renders them less readable, and occasionally unparsable. I do wish they'd turn off this "feature". I've yet to hear a coherent explanation for how this improves the quality of submissions.
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[ 6.6 ms ] story [ 53.3 ms ] threadIf you’re worried the original title is too clickbaity then drop the part after the colon. But not “how.” The mere fact that recursion got into programming is obvious. The whole point of this article is to explain how.
FORTRAN being the most prominent example