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I am amused by the fact that both of these reports obey the rule - universal in my experience so far - that "All infinite recursions are at most three levels deep."
Three?
Hm.
By my parsing, it's ((((((development process) management) suggestion) management) process) manager)... that is, a manager for the process of managing suggestions for managing the process of development. What's your parsing?
Of course, it isn't embedded, which makes it much more parseable.
"The goat the cat the dog the stick the fire the water the cow the butcher slaughtered drank extinguished consumed hit ate bit was purchased for the two zuzim my father spent" is a different matter.
Recursion technically implies means “doing something to (something derived from) the result of doing that same thing earlier”, not just “doing stuff repeatedly”. There are three “management” steps above.
You're right, of course. I was thinking about nesting depth. Thanks for the correction.
One can derive an obvious corollary to this rule...