From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!micomvax!ray Newsgroups: net.lang Title: Re: Recursion Article-I.D.: micomvax.126 Posted: Wed Mar 23 10:49:37 1983 Received: Fri Mar 25 07:59:24 1983 I have probably come into this discussion very late, but anyway I have always thought the best example of recursion is the definition of factorial:- function fact(n); if n=0 then 1 else n*fact(n-1) close end The language by the way is POP-2, and that introduces a whole new discussion...