[dvt]

I guess it's more reading and writing it in code. In my case, it makes sense to read code like I read a book: it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. (Procedural, see?)

A recursive function makes me do all these convoluted mental gymnastics when I'm just trying to figure out if Cinderella lived happily ever after or not.

[ScottBurson]

I promise you, if you wrote and read more recursive functions, you would get used to them. It's just a matter of practice.