You got it all wrong, man! Raju uses Perl when he needs to
calculate
Hmm... don't you know that God wrote in Lisp? This is what Raju
should do.
;;; quick and dirty Scheme code
;;; untested...
(define (sum n)
(cond ((eq? 0 n)
0)
(else
(+ n (sum n-1)))))
--
Ramakrishnan
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