Imagine instead, you're writing code that's a hundred thousand lines, a million lines, of code. You don't want to write it in this form. All right, and the reason you don't want to do that is, well, several.

换一个角度来思考,你正在写的代码有几十万行，近百万行,你绝对不想写成这种格式,好吧，你不想这么做的原因有以下几个。

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Once you hear that description, it's easy to write the code, in fact. This is a place where the recursive version of it is much easier to think about than the iterative one.

实际上一旦你听到了大致描述,就能很轻松的写出代码来,在这一点上应用递归来解决问题,比用迭代要容易理解多了。

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So write the so called source code which is in a specific language.

用指定的编程语言,写出所谓的源代码。

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Google does a lot of work sampling, such as requiring coders to write code in the interview.

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So yes, right now we also have loopholes in the campaign finance laws that mean rich people can afford to make sure their politicians get in and write the tax code the way they want it.

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Sometimes you will have to lock yourself in a room to write or code for 72 hours to make a deadline or ship a product.

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