Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Recursion

Can a function call itself? You bet! We call that recursion. There is a notoriously dull song called “99 Bottles of Beer.” Create a new C Command Line Tool named BeerSong. Open main.c and add a function to write out the words to this song and then kick it off in main():

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