A recent proposal (Hauser, Chomsky & Fitch, 2002) suggests that the crucial defining property of human language is recursion. In this paper, following a critical analysis of what is meant by the term, I examine three reasons why the recursion-only hypothesis a cannot be correct: (i) recursion is neither unique to language in humans, nor unique to our species, (ii) human language consists of man...

The article deals with a kind of recursive function templates in C++, where the recursion is realized corresponding template parameters to achieve better computational performance. Some specialization of these template functions ends the recursion and can be implemented using optimized hardware dependent or independent routines. The method is applied in addition to the known expression template...