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<p>Most computer <a href="page.php?w=programming_language">programming language</a>s support recursion by allowing a function to call itself from within its own code. Some <a href="page.php?w=functional_programming">functional programming</a> languages (for instance, <a href="page.php?w=Clojure">Clojure</a>) do not define any built-in looping constructs, and instead rely solely on recursion. It is proved in <a href="page.php?w=computability_theory">computability theory</a> that these recursion-only languages are</p><p>
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