Recursion is Dangerous Medicine

"Recursion is Dangerous Medicine" is a short poem by Karl Jones.

Poem

Recursion is dangerous medicine.

A measured dose heals.

Unrestrained recursion deforms; it deranges; it kills.

History

First detected and recorded on the afternoon of 6 November 2020 in a Twitter post.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Recursion (nonfiction)