The assignment is basically to write an agent that participates in various types of auctions, but all communication has been abstracted out of the problem, leaving the students only to write a simple program reading input and writing output.
It's not a functional programming language, we're talking about C, and they didn't use tail recursion, and in some obscure cases the functions would have actually returned, wrecking havoc on the behavior of the program.
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RE: The infinite-recursion paradigm
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The infinite-recursion paradigm
I'm a TA in an advanced course that includes a programming project (I use the term freely, as this could be completed in 300 loc).
Anyway, in two years in a row, I have two studetns submitting me the same new paradigm for programing. The code needs to read input and send appropriate output. These two brillant students came up with the following: Whenever they read input that needed to start a new section, they went on and recursively called the handler for that section. When it was finally time to exit they simply did exit(0).