This Java recursion tutorial shows you how to create a recursive Java factorial function and compares these methods to iterative ones.

Recursive SQL can be very elegant and efficient. However, because of the difficulty developers can have understanding recursion, it is sometimes thought of as 'too inefficient to use frequently.' But, ...

Recursion, in sum, allows language to become an infinite system. The Chomskyan view is that this ability is quite special, unique to humans.