[LPisGood]

You’ve never read a 5000 line recursive method that returns different numbers of arguments depending on where it chose to execute the recursive call.

[palata]

Bad code is hard to read, that is orthogonal to the fact that it is recursive.

[tikhonj]

If all you do is replace the recursion in that example with one (or more) loops with mutable indexes, chances are the code will get worse.

[LPisGood]

Oh don’t worry it had more than a half dozen of those nested as well